Business Benefits
Businesses, governments, and institutions invest in Physical Access Control Systems (PACS) to manage risks associated with employee, contractor,
and visitor accessibility to their facilities, people, and information. Even with a risk assessment warranting the provisioning of a PACS solution,
customers must still achieve and demonstrate both reduced total cost of ownership and increased productivity associated with their chosen solutions.
PlaSec Classic and Enterprise Appliances offer the highest degree of cost reduction and productivity, whether securing 18 doors in a standalone building
or managing thousands of doors across numerous cities with a unified identity store. Value Added Resellers and System Users alike enjoy significant TCO
and productivity efficiencies by deploying, operating, and maintaining a PlaSec PACS system.
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
When comparing a PlaSec PACs with a typical PACS head-end, PlaSec lowers, and in certain aspects dramatically lowers, costs for acquisition, installation, configuration, integration, operation, maintenance, expansion, repair, and outage (disaster recovery). Upon performing a complete, fair comparison for any 64 - 2,048 reader application, studies show PlaSec delivers between 50% - 75% reductions in the total cost of ownership of the system.
Additional value propositions:
- PlaSec Appliances ship standard in a hardened appliance with both a Linux OS and Open LDAP data store. Customers do not have to purchase an OS and RDBMS license, as is the case with most PACS products.
- Client software is FREE, unlike most PACS products that require customers to purchase client software licenses./li>
- Pricing is straight forward and highly competitive at any range of system size.
- Most features and functionality ship standard with PlaSec Appliance Products. In contrast, many PACS products have pages of added licensing fees.
- Integration between IAM & SIEM IT Systems and PACS can be accomplished without the mandate for extensive professional services, as is the case with a typical, if even capable, PACS product manufacturer.
- Any size system can be designed to include resilient features like grid replication and/or hot standby-auto failover. Customers do not need an expensive dedicated corporate server or fault tolerant server.
- Customers can install new or retrofit access control field hardware originally manufactured by Mercury Security Corporation or HID Global (EdgeReaders) instead of having to buy proprietary hardware.
- Labor expense for installation, configuration, maintenance, and recovery are lower when compared to similar expenses associated with a typical PACS product.
Increased Productivity
When deploying PlaSec Classic or Enterprise Appliances, customers enjoy increased productivity compared to typical PACS products.
- There are no requirements to interact with, or configure, an OS like Microsoft Windows.
- There are no requirements to interact with, or configure, a RDBMS like Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle Server./li>
- PlaSec's extensive Collaboration Platform is completely utilized through a browser UI, enabling a wide range of integration capability in a crisp and efficient manner. Typical PACS products require a "call for quote" for such integration to occur.
- Data replication between PlaSec Classic or Enterprise Appliances and external IT Systems is automated and efficient. Additional benefits include single point data entry, modeling, modification, suspension, revocation, and elimination.
Enterprise Spec Sheet
