ImageWare® Showcases IWS™ Biometric Engine® At Oracle® OpenWorld 2004
SAN DIEGO, CA, December 2, 2004 - ImageWare® Systems, Inc. (AMEX: IW),
a global leader in identity management solutions, and Partner in the Oracle® PartnerNetwork, today announced it will showcase its IWS™ Biometric Engine® at Oracle OpenWorld 2004 in San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 5 – 9. ImageWare will provide hands-on product demonstrations of its multi-biometric engine in the Enterprise Security Pavilion, Booth 137.
“ImageWare is excited to showcase our IWS™ Biometric Engine® at OpenWorld and to extend our Oracle Partnership by supporting their Oracle Application Server 10g across our biometric engine, secure credential and law enforcement product lines,” said Bill Willis, ImageWare’s SVP of technology and business development. “With Oracle’s continued commitment to security and our expanding need for managing millions of biometrics, credentials and NIST transactions in a real-time environment, 10g support is essential for our products.”
The IWS™ Biometric Engine® is a scalable multi-biometric engine that specifically addresses mission-critical security applications. It enables users to enroll and manage unlimited population sizes and conduct multi-modal, comparative biometric searches including exhaustive (1:n), specific (1:1) or investigative (x:n). The IWS™ Biometric Engine® is available as part of a Web-based, biometric enrollment, identification, verification and investigative application or as a platform that enables system integrators to build custom identity management applications or incorporate biometric enrollment, search and authentication functionality into existing applications.
Oracle Application Server 10g is an integrated, standards-based software platform and the first application server designed to take advantage of new grid technology features. This support will enable ImageWare customers to further streamline their mission-critical processes as they move to latest Oracle’s Application Server.
Supporting ID management initiatives, the IWS Biometric engine can be deployed across a wide array of industries and applications including national ID, driver license, border control, amusement and events, and other identity management systems.
About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
The Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 13,800 companies that deliver innovative enterprise software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's Internet economy. Oracle partners are able to offer customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company.
About ImageWare Systems, Inc.
ImageWare Systems, Inc. (AMEX:IW), is a leading developer and provider of identity management solutions, providing biometric, secure credential, law enforcement and digital imaging technologies. Scalable for worldwide deployment, the Company's biometric product line includes a multi-biometric engine that is hardware and algorithm independent, enabling the enrollment and management of unlimited population sizes. ImageWare's identification products are used to manage and issue secure credentials including national IDs, passports, driver licenses, smart cards and access control credentials. ImageWare's digital booking products provide law enforcement with integrated mug shot, fingerprint Livescan and investigative capabilities. The Company also provides comprehensive digital workflow solutions for the professional photography industry. ImageWare is headquartered in San Diego, with offices in Washington DC and Canada. For more information visit www.iwsinc.com.
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