VisionGateway, SmartCentric to Expand client base with smart card-based e-business solutions
07 May, 2007
category: Biometrics, Financial
VisionGateway and SmartCentric have combined their expertise to offer secure e-business integration with multi-application smart card support. Both companies have begun working together on immediate client opportunities in the real estate, print media and gaming industries.
SAN DIEGO, CA – VisionGateway, Inc., a next-generation software solutions company capitalizing on the explosive growth of Internet use worldwide, announced that it has begun working with SmartCentric Technologies International Ltd, a leading global smart card solution provider, to provide an additional e-business solution to VisionGateway’s growing client base. The new e-commerce solutions are intended to complement INTERScepter, the company’s core Internet Resource Management and security platform technology.
The SmartCentric solutions will bring to VisionGateway not only the latest innovative card and payment systems, but also access to a portfolio of revenue generating clients. Both companies have begun working together on immediate client opportunities in the real estate, print media and gaming industries.
Specifically, the SmartCentric solutions will also add key smartcard capabilities for VisionGateway’s current clients in the Higher Education sector. By integrating SmartCentric technology, VisionGateway clients will benefit from centralized processing, easy to configure, deploy and manage services, offering increased ease of use for off-campus and city card programs.
“INTERScepter is to VisionGateway what MS Dos was to Microsoft, in that it provides an ideal platform for additional applications and capabilities for a broad range of Internet-based services,” said Michael Emerson, Chief Executive Officer of VisionGateway. “Our teaming with SmartCentric is an excellent example of that comparison because adding their smartcard solutions to our already impressive list of capabilities makes our INTERScepter that much more compressive. We are fully committed to executing on our business model to create and commercialize our product in the burgeoning field of Internet Resource Management and security.”
“VisionGateway’s global coverage and distribution network provides us immediate growth opportunities in regions we currently do not have a presence,” said SmartCentric CEO Kieran Timmins. “Further, the potential to integrate our payment and security systems into a packaged solution for specific market sectors across all regions will be investigated by both companies,” he said.
About SmartCentric Technologies International Limited
SmartCentric Technologies International Ltd (SmartCentric) is a specialist technology company focused on secure payments and transactions and multi-application smart card systems. SmartCentric’s flagship product, SmartCity®, was originally developed by the SmartCentric team in the early 1990s and has evolved into a trusted worldwide card solution. SmartCity® is a Multi-Application Smart Card based system which has many wide-ranging uses, such as stored value, loyalty, gift cards, logical access, physical access, biometrics, car parking and ticketing. SmartCity® is based on international standards and is teamed with best of breed industry partners to deliver leading edge technology and first class client friendly solutions.
The latest version of SmartCity® offers the full range of SmartCentric’s multi-applications on contactless cards (RFID) and offers remote data collection giving the best of both worlds for networked areas and remote locations.
About VisionGateway Inc.
VisionGateway is committed to the development of a high-growth, public company that creates, acquires, licenses and markets next-generation software solutions capitalizing on the explosive growth of Internet use worldwide. As the global economy becomes ever more dependant on Internet-based tools and services, VisionGateway is positioned to exploit several multibillion dollar markets by delivering highly-sophisticated security solutions to key government agencies, businesses, universities, financial services, and directly to the retail Internet consumer.
INTERScepter, the Company’s cutting-edge software product, offers a fluid, highly intuitive user interface that provides high granularity control of business issues and costs, expanding the managerial universe beyond IT control and moving it to in the hands of business managers.