HID Global

Integrated Logical / Physical Access Solutions

HID Global is the trusted, worldwide leader in providing solutions for the delivery of Secure Identity. HID’s Crescendo™ smart card platform incorporates a powerful contact smart card chip coupled with HID’s industry standard proximity or iCLASS^® technology.

A growing number of enterprise organizations are looking to deploy a single card solution to provide trusted access to the corporate network as well as leveraging their existing HID based physical access infrastructure. HID’s Crescendo smart card platform offers the lowest total cost of ownership for a combined logical and physical access control solution.

• Crescendo reduces card management costs and increases user convenience by combining logical and physical access control in a single card
• Crescendo provides out-of-the-box, standards-compliant support for thousands of logical access applications provided by Microsoft and others
• Crescendo is fully supported by Microsoft’s Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 product
• Crescendo is supplied pre-initialized with the required on-card software and includes all required drivers and middleware
• Crescendo requires no per-seat middleware licenses, reducing overall costs
• Crescendo uses a power contact smart card chip with cryptographic co-processor coupled with HID’s industry standard proximity or iCLASS technology
• Crescendo is available off-the-shelf, reducing lead times and overall cost

Avaleris is a systems integration partner and authorized reseller of HID’s Crescendo smart card product line and associated smart card readers. Avaleris provides these HID Crescendo products as a key component of the integrated logical / physical access solutions we design and deploy for our customers.