Contract Update

23 Oct 2006 07:01

Intercede Group PLC23 October 2006 23 October 2006 INTERCEDE GROUP plc ('Intercede' or 'the Company') Contract Update Intercede is pleased to announce that an additional order for 200,000 MyIDlicenses has been received from Gemalto, bringing the total number of licensesordered to date to 500,000 in support of a single European public sectorcustomer. The robust and highly scalable nature of Intercede's MyID cardtechnology will enable this major customer to deliver card management servicesto over 1 million employees and contractors on a 24/7 basis. This project is oneof the largest employee focused smart card deployments in the world anddemonstrates the suitability of MyID for very large scale, complex environments. A number of key MyID features have been utilized to provide a fully scalable andintegrated solution, maximizing the use of existing infrastructure whileminimizing the risks and deployment time, including: • Integration with an in-house identity management system (IDMS) - to provide a single point of user interaction for all card and identity management • Customization of ID card issuance and management workflows to match required business processes - minimizing operator training requirements • Data retrieval from an existing central user data store - to avoid re-keying of information • Connection to a centralised Entrust Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate authority for certificate production • Distributed deployment to more than 1,500 remote desktop enrolment and issuance stations for integrated card printing and chip encoding Richard Parris, Chairman and Chief Executive of Intercede, commented: "Following our recent success in the US Federal Government market, this latestorder demonstrates that MyID is able to provide both Government and CorporateEnterprises worldwide with the confidence and scalability that they require todeploy millions of smart card based identities. We are delighted to havereceived an additional license order from this prestigious Europeanorganization." About IntercedeIntercede Group plc is a leading developer and supplier of smart card andidentity management software listed on the London Stock Exchange (IGP LN)(IGP.L). The Group's MyID software manages the secure registration, issuance andlifecycle of digital identities for a wide range of uses. This requires theintegration of multiple technologies and products from many different vendors,including smart cards, USB authenticators, biometrics, digital certificates andOpen Platform applets. Intercede works with a number of market leading OEM, re-seller and technologypartners that supply MyID technology including: Athena Smartcard Solutions,Gemalto, RSA Security, SafeNet, Thales, VeriSign and a variety of systemsintegrators and other security product and service providers. Intercede and MyID are registered trademarks or trademarks in the UK, US and/orother countries. ENQUIRIES Intercede Group plc Tel. +44 (0)1455 558111Richard Parris, Chairman & Chief ExecutiveAndrew Walker, Finance Director Pelham Public Relations Tel. +44 (0)20 7743 6679Archie BerensKate Catchpole This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange