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Wednesday, October 3, 9:05 am EST

realtime joins with Bromba GmbH and UPEK, Inc. to make its award winning biometric identity management solution compatible with most leading fingerprint readers and laptops

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, October 3. 

realtime North America, Inc. (www.realtimenorthamerica.com) announced today that its award-winning bioLock software is now compatible with most biometric devices and laptops with built-in fingerprint  readers. By leveraging the latest BioIDENTICA® SDK from Bromba GmbH and fingerprint readers embedded in millions of laptops from UPEK, realtime’s bioLock is now compatible with over 100 different models of laptops and over 50 standalone USB fingerprint devices such as the UPEK Eikon fingerprint reader. Today’s announcement was made at TechEd ’07 Las Vegas, SAP’s largest technical education conference.

Thomas Neudenberger, COO of realtime North America Inc. is excited about this latest integration and states, “bioLock is powered by the SAP NetWeaver® platform and exclusively available for use with SAP® applications. Many users of SAP solutions already work on laptops with a built-in fingerprint reader. Now they can not only protect the logon to their computers, but they can physically protect every mouse click in the system.”

bioLock can restrict the logon to SAP applications (security level I), every transaction (level II), and any fields or info types (level III).  Independent from the user of an SAP solution, bioLock will uniquely identify the “actual user” and log his or her activities into the standard log file. With this leading identity management tool for SAP solutions, one now has proof who did what and when within the system.  Persons in critical departments such as finance, HR, IT, production, management, and other selected employees handling sensitive data are equipped with bioLock to protect the company from fraud and help them to comply with mandatory regulations.  bioLock will guarantee more accurate audits and will help to comply with critical regulatory mandates such as the California Act, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley. Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires certifying that companies have established and maintained internal controls and will assess and audit their systems’ effectiveness annually.

The latest version of bioLock now has an “invitation only” function. For the first time it is easy and straight forward for the business team to log their most critical transactions and know for sure who will have access - once a function is protected with biometrics a special global check mark is set to require every user to provide a biometric ID. An “invitation only” table defines which person is invited to use which function. All other users, including administrators with all access rights, are automatically excluded.

“We are excited that realtime is taking advantage of the millions of laptops in the marketplace with UPEK fingerprint readers to provide added value to users of SAP applications,” stated Todd Berg, UPEK’s Partner Program Manager. “realtime continues to drive adoption of biometric technology by solving real-world needs such as regulatory compliance and fraud mitigation.”

California State University, Fullerton researchers are working on extensive research studies expecting to show that even though a company might be compliant with a mandatory regulation, such as the Sarbanes Oxley Act, a company is still exposed to risks of fraud and major damages. Paul Sheldon Foote, a Harvard-educated professor states, “Laws and regulations constitute minimal standards.  Corporate management needs to do more than satisfy minimal laws and regulations to protect corporate assets and investors.  Shareholders will sue any corporation causing shareholder losses because of weak internal control systems. Corporate information systems using only passwords are unacceptable.  Corporate management needs to use the best available biometric system enhancements.”

About realtime:

realtime was established in Europe by former senior SAP employees in 1986 with an emphasis on innovative, inexpensive, and convenient solutions for access control, authorization profile management, expert consulting, and advanced security to include biometrics.  realtime has a client base of over 200 "Fortune Global 500" customers in Europe and in North America, including the U.S. Army, Bayer, DaimlerChrysler, Siemens, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, DuPont, Marathon Oil, Nestlé, and others.

Brevard County Government won the prestigious InfoWorld 100 Award in 2003 using bioLock to comply with HIPAA.  realtime also supports clients with both consulting services and software solutions.  In addition to bioLock, realtime has over 150 clients using its other popular software solutions such as APM, a complete risk and role management system for use with SAP solutions. realtime AG is an SAP software solution partner and SAP services partner with solutions that have achieved certified integration with SAP solutions. realtime is also a member of SAP’s industry value network for public sector.  

For more information about realtime, bioLock, and other solutions designed for use with SAP solutions, see www.realtimenorthamerica.com and www.biolock.us and www.sapaudit.us

About UPEK Inc.:
UPEK, Inc., a global leader in biometric fingerprint security solutions, offers integrated end-to-end solutions including comprehensive design & integration services to the world’s leading consumer and industrial products companies. UPEK solutions enable the strongest fingerprint authentication security available, packaged for high user convenience and rapid integration into existing products and network architectures. The company has been pioneering biometric fingerprint technology since 1996 and shipping product in volume since 1999. UPEK is headquartered in Emeryville, California, with offices in Prague, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.upek.com .

About Bromba GmbH:

The company is specialized in biometrics and offers consulting services as well as software/hardware components for industrial customers and governmental institutions. The employees of Bromba GmbH mostly come from the business unit Biometrics of Siemens AG and have more than 8 years of experience in the areas of general biometrics, the development of fingerprint sensors, fingerprint-sensor devices, fingerprint algorithms, biometric application software, as well as the evaluation of biometric components and complete systems.

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