Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

SCM releases new version of CHIPDRIVE

Thursday, October 8, 2009

SCM Microsystems Inc. announced a new version of its CHIPDRIVE Time Recording solution for recording and administering employee working hours.

As in previous versions, CHIPDRIVE Time Recording 6.0 comes with everything needed to set up and manage time recording of employees and projects within small and medium-sized businesses. Smart cards or contactless chip tokens are included for employees to use as forgery-proof employee time cards; a mobile or network-based terminal serves as a time clock; and CHIPDRIVE software records and analyzes employee attendance and other data, including hours logged, status of vacation days and work absences.


CHIPDRIVE Time Recording 6.0 also offers enhanced performance and new management features. Enhancements include improved personnel administration, an optimized excel export for daily reports, and improved password protection. New features include a larger user interface that can be individually configured by the user, including the ability to modify the color scheme and the navigational slide bars.

To ease personnel administration, photos of employees can be imported and formatted with an integrated picture editing tool. Groups or individuals can be easily selected via the slide bar. In addition, the daily attendance log can now also be viewed and printed within the network via PC Time Clock – a special application for people working from home or satellite offices that allows users to clock in and out on the PC and transfer their timesheet data via the corporate network or Internet into the Time Recording system.

CHIPDRIVE Time Recording 6.0 is available worldwide. Customers that purchased a previous software version after September 1 are eligible to receive a free licence key to upgrade. [end] 

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