German Firm Selects MKS to Create Smart Card Systems | Internet News

German Firm Selects MKS to Create Smart Card Systems

Written By
Deborah Jessop
Deborah Jessop
Dec 28, 1999
1 minute read

Mortice Kern Systems Inc.‘s Integrity Framework was selected by Germany’s Giesecke & Devrient to manage its Web-based development and deployment of systems for banknote
printing, smart cards, cryptographic software and security systems.


Giesecke & Devrient has a intranet-based remote development and knowledge management environment which allows them to export all pre-approved application data to local development environments, without the need to acquire local government approval for individual transfers.


MKS Source
Integrity Select Edition will facilitate deployment through management
controls.


Giesecke & Devrient CEO Willi Berchthold said that MKS Source Integrity
Select, with its support for remote development teams combined with its
controls, process capabilities and audit trails was the ideal software
management solution for them. Giesecke & Devrient is selling its
knowledge management solution, code named B.E.S.T., which will be
debuted publically at the CeBIT tradeshow in February.


Key factors in Giesecke & Devrient’s selection of MKS Source Integrity
Select included the ability to support standard Web protocols, as well
as to maintain centralized data control.


Additional requirements
included central logging capabilities for all transactions inside the
environment to fulfill government reporting requirements.

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