California Department of Social Services Orders Additional TouchPrint 600 Systems; Sylvan/Identix Joint Venture to Provide Fingerprint Services for Applicants.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 1998-- Order to Identix Valued in Excess of $500,000 Identix Inc. (ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. ASE is a comprehensive and robust data management product with a long history dating back to the late 1980s. :IDX (IDX Systems Corporation, South Burlington, VT, www.idx.com) One of the largest health care information systems companies in the country, acquired in 2006 by GE Healthcare (www.gehealthcare.com), a unit of the General Electric Company. ), a leader worldwide in live-scan systems and biometric identity verification Noun 1. identity verification - the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics; "negative identification can only be accomplished through biometric identification"; "if a pin or password is lost or systems, Thursday announced the receipt of an order from the California Department of Social Services California Department of Social Services is a single state agency for many of the programs defined as part of the social safety net in the United States. Federal and State funds for adoptions, aid to the disabled, family crisis counseling, subsistence payments to poor (DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S ) to purchase additional TouchPrint 600(TM) (TP-600) systems. In addition, the DSS has contracted with Sylvan/Identix Fingerprinting Centers LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control to provide fingerprinting services for the screening of prospective Community Care licensees and employees. The units will be installed at pre-employment processing centers in various State Community Care Licensing offices to screen prospective applicants as part of the DSS licensing procedures. The DSS screens prospective applicants such as foster parents and day care workers. The order to Identix for the TP-600 systems and upgrades for DSS existing units is valued in excess of $500,000. Sylvan/Identix LLC will be compensated separately for providing the ongoing fingerprinting services. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Andy Ah-Po, chief, Criminal Records Clearing Bureau, Central Operation Branch, the DSS anticipates that the TP-600s will save the department time, cut costs and improve accuracy in screening as many as 200,000 applicants per year. "We are extremely pleased with the two Identix live-scan systems we have been using, and believe the additional systems, along with upgrading our original two, will expand our local capability to cut background screening time to three work days or less," he said. "Additionally," Ah-Po continued, "the fingerprint services provided by Sylvan/Identix will greatly reduce both time and expense for the DSS for the initial screening of applicants. Time and money that would have been spent actually taking and processing applicant fingerprints for background checks, can now be directed towards implementing additional program enhancements and improved customer service. "We are confident that this relationship will not only ensure a more efficient background check, but will also enable the DSS to provide a more complete overall screening process," he said. Identix Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Randall C. Fowler, commented: "The screening by the DSS for prospective applicants is an important step in providing quality social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales personnel for the State of California. Our technology promises to play a key role in the process by providing the DSS with the latest in leading-edge live-scan equipment, as well as providing fingerprint services by our joint venture with Sylvan sylvan emanating from or pertaining to woods. See also sylvatic. ." Identix is a leader in designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing products for the capture and/or comparison of fingerprints for security, anti-fraud, law enforcement and other applications. The statements in this release that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with uncertainties pertaining per·tain intr.v. per·tained, per·tain·ing, per·tains 1. To have reference; relate: evidence that pertains to the accident. 2. to customer orders, orders from and contracts with government entities, availability of government funds, competition, demand for products and services, development of markets for the company's products and services and other risks as identified in the company's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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