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EPI Suite 6.0
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EPI Suite 6.0
Agenda
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EPI Suite Modules
EPI Suite Market Leadership
New v6.0 Features
EPI Suite Pro
EPI Suite Classic
EPI Suite Lite
Custom Services
Competitive Analysis
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Modules
• EPI (Electronic Personal Identification) Suite
is comprised of 6 modules to:
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Design cards
Enroll people into the system
Print reports
Import information from 3rd party databases and file
systems
• Automatically migrate data from older EPI Suite
versions
• Modify the EPI Suite database structure for systems
integration
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Market Leadership
• More than 10,000 copies sold
• Available in English, French, Spanish,
Arabic and German (6.0 versions TBD)
• Tested with leading peripherals to ensure
compatibility
• Based on open standards (TWAIN,
ODBC, OLE, XML)
• Operable with Oracle 9i, MSDE,
SQLServer 2000 and Access 2000/2002
databases
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI 6.0 Version Features
• EPIFaceFinder
• During image capture, EPI Suite
automatically finds, centers and
crops the face
• Ensures consistent photos from
person to person
• Based on a sophisticated eye
finding algorithm
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI 6.0 Version Features
• EPIQuickPix
• Custom driver for the CCD2000 camera
• Custom driver for the Olympus 4000z
camera
• Capture images with a single click or tap
of the keyboard
• PC-controlled camera features including
brightness, zoom, lighting and flash
• Automatically included with EPI Suite v6.0
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• For large organizations
with 10,000 or more
employees
• Design, create, manage
and control multiple IDs
per person on a network
• Base Package: $3,295
• Lan Station: $1,995
• Lan Station NCP: $895
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Features for Fast, Easy Enrollment
• Launch the card design module from the
enrollment module
• Right-click to add new enrollment fields
• Display the active database in the title bar
to ensure you have the right database and
card layout
• Display image date/time stamp to
determine if it is the most current
• Pick list of predefined magnetic stripe
encoders
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Features for Fast, Easy Enrollment – Cont.
• Select and view card layouts with a thumbnail
preview
• Sample images, databases and layouts for multiple
vertical markets
• Guard station mode for enhanced physical security
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Design Features
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Single- and dual-sided card design
Variety of card sizes – CR-80, CR-100, Custom, Lip, Flush
Place bar codes on K plane
Visual placeholders and print exclusion areas for Smart chips and
magnetic stripes
• Color control for plastic, backgrounds, fonts, fill and line colors
• Variety of drawing objects
• Lines, rectangles, round rectangles, ellipses, polygons, text, static/dynamic
images, bar codes, secure micro text
• Align, distribute, flip and rotate objects
• Zoom and snap to grid
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Design Features – Cont.
• Conditional display reduces the number of card designs to
manage
• Assign database fields to magnetic stripes and bar codes
• Import or export card backgrounds
• Fade: whitewash an image by increasing its brightness
• Transparency: blend an image with its background for a seethrough effect
• Comes with built-in sample images
• Access all object properties in one mouse-click
• Displays the active database in the title bar
• Automatically resizes layouts for the destination printer
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Design Features – Cont.
• PDF417 and Datastrip bar codes
• Ideal for government, library, airport, voter
registration, jail and driver license applications
• If biometrics and text are combined on the bar
code, customization of application-specific data
structures and readers is available
• Requires customization to store biometric and
image data
• Code 128, Mod 43 bar codes
• Ideal for health care applications
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Powerful Credential Management
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Import and export person, card and image information in batches
Add cards in batches
Update and delete card and person information in batches
Accommodates having more than one card per person
Eliminates having to duplicate person’s information on each card
type
• Enables users to more easily manage multiple cards for multiple
people
• Reduces database size and data entry errors
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Card Management Statuses
• Ensures all cards are accounted for
• Card Re-print rules for valid, invalid, printed, lost,
stolen, unprinted and disabled cards
• Card coding to ensure uniqueness
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Simple, Fast Data Entry and Retrieval
• 15 user-definable place holders to store photos,
fingerprints and signatures
• User-defined field names and field types
• Pick lists to reduce data entry errors
• Editable pick lists to reduce data entry
• Read-only fields
• Validation rules (between a certain range, etc.)
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Simple, Fast Data Entry and Retrieval – Cont.
• Flexible query options
• Complex
• Simple fill in the blank options for high volume enrollment
applications
• Save and reuse queries from last enrollment project
• Delete queries
• Set a sort order
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Card Encoding
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Internal and external magstripe and smart chip encoder support
Configurable encoder strings
Custom dll required for smartchip encoder
Bar code card reader configuration
• Flexible Image Capture
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Configurable image name and aspect ratio
Store images inside the database or outside the database
Configurable image compression
Twain, direct (requires plug-in) or load from file
Watermarking (custom project)
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• User Types for Enhanced Security
• Viewer User Type
• Read-only access to admit cardholders into secure areas –
cannot print cards
• Print Clerk User Type
• Print-only capabilities – cannot edit the database
• Change card statuses with password-protected supervisor
authorization
• Clerk User Type
• Create and save database records and images; query the
database; print cards
• Edit saved information and update card statuses with
password-protected supervisor authorization
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• User Types for Enhanced Security – Cont.
• Supervisor User Account
• Create, modify and delete records; print cards; change card
status; set up card formats
• Administrator User Account
• Delete database records, print cards, change card statuses,
and set up card formats
• Customize the enrollment application, configure hardware,
maintain user accounts
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Integration Tools
• Manual Import and Export
• OLE Automation
• Programming hooks to control EPI Suite from another
application
• Print cards, login, query the EPI database, capture
images, import/export, close and open the enrollment
application
• Look up data in external databases and add it to the
EPI Suite database
• Useful for integrating with 3rd party applications or
adding card printing to virtually any DB application
• Used to add background checking, watermarking,
encryption, notifications
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Pro
• Administration and Reports
• Database Utilities
• Field modification
• Importer (CSV, ODBC databases)
• Updater
• Reports
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Card details by format
Cards printed by date
Cards reprinted by card code
Image statistics
Person, image and card details
People missing card formats or images
Can be customized using Access 2000
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Classic
• For mid-sized companies with
1,000-10,000 records
• Design, create and manage multiple
IDs per person on one workstation
• For companies who need network
backup, more than one image, or are
on a limited budget
• MSRP – $1,995 U.S.
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Classic
• All the features as EPI Suite Pro, except:
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Stores 5 images, rather than 15
No 2D bar codes
No OLE automation
No conditional displays
No smartchip encoding
No discounted LAN stations
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Lite
• For cost-conscious organizations
who need fewer than 1,000
records and only one card per
person
• Single workstation
• MSRP – $995 U.S. (5.5 was
$895)
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Lite
• All the features as EPI Suite Pro, except:
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Stores 3 images, rather than 15
No 2D bar codes
No OLE automation
No conditional display
No smartchip encoding
Not networkable
No ODBC database
No batched processes
No transparency or fading design features
No logs
EPI Suite 6.0
EPI Suite Support
• Languages
• v5.0 French (European), Spanish (Latin America), Arabic, German
• Translated user guide – administrator guide only in English
• Site License
• Requires special order – see discount guidelines
• Keyless or keyed versions available
• Evaluation Version
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No dynamic bar codes
Prints samples only
Limited to 25 records
Keyless