Enterprise Level ID Systems

Does your organization have multiple sites, departments, role functions, and thousands of employees to identify? Are you growing, acquiring or merging other companies and need to integrate multiple systems for secure identification? Or are you challenged with managing industry compliance across multiple business units that are now under one corporate entity? 

If you answered yes to any one of the questions, you may need an enterprise ID badge solution to accommodate your organization’s complex needs. 

Building an enterprise-level, multi-user ID badging system can seem complicated. Especially if you’ve got outdated components, and your management team expects you to continue using them. We’ve created a simple roadmap for addressing each part of the ID badging ecosystem so you can determine what parts may not be sufficient, or need upgrading. In doing so, you can evaluate what your organization should consider in order to accomplish your ID printing goals:

Secure ID Badge Printers: 

With high volume ID printing requirements across multiple locations and various business units, enterprises with a large workforce should consider investing in a reliable, high-quality retransfer printer, especially if you are printing on composite RFID cards. With common features like high-speed printing and built-in network capabilities, there is one model that’s popular among IT leaders, for its proven track record in delivering value to its end users:  HID HDP6600 Card Printer: 

Key Benefits of an Enterprise Level ID Card Printer: 

• High-definition badges in as little as 16 seconds per card/up to 230 cards per hour in batch mode

• Instant-on technology (iON) rapidly heats the transfer roller for a fast initial warm-up. This allows the card printer to reach operating temperature in just seconds with the fastest print time for the first card out when the printer wakes up to start the retransfer printing processes. 

• High-yield, full-color ribbons — keeping costs at a minimum with reduced downtime to maximize productivity.

You may already benefit from the innovative technology built into the HID HDP6600, or a comparable ID card printer. If that’s the case, you may just want to explore our enterprise ID badge software.

ID Badge Card Personalization Software

Enterprises are constantly changing. You may be part of an organization that just had an acquisition, is rebranding, expanding, or (hopefully not) condensing. Either way, ID badge printing requirements can vary based on company size, industry, and role permission, so we want to make sure you have the right ID printing software license in place.

 It’s important for organizations to distinguish that standalone network licenses, with a single workstation, only suit small businesses that have one person running the program. Enterprises need multiple IT & Security users to share across networks: a common database, multiple workstations, customizable templates, and advanced ID applications for each location or department. One way to address all of these requirements is with an enterprise application like HID Asure ID 7 Exchange Software.

Key Benefits of HID ASURE ID 7 Exchange

• Improved User Interface –  Design and manage  sharp photo ID’s with a user-friendly interface and minimal training
• Databases Demystified – Utilize an Internal database with a configurable Live Link plug-in to easily print cards from a common database with real-time data exchange to Microsoft® SQL Server®
• iDIRECTOR –  in combination with Asure ID Exchange, the iDIRECTOR module allows you to quickly and easily manage card memory, load multiple smart card applications, and graphically personalize smart cards such as iCLASS® Seos® in one seamless process.
• iCLASS SE® Open Encoder Platform Support – Streamline ordering, inventorying management, and issuance processes with HID Global’s iCLASS SE encoder platform, enabling your users to create, encode (read/write), and manage physical access control solution (PACS) credentials in a single step
• Robust Reporting Suite – filter, sort, and group data as needed to build custom reports that meet the needs of your business.
• Compatible with FARGO® HDP8500LE Laser Engraver– print, encode, engrave and laminate your secure credentials within a single, unified card template, saving you critical production and delivery time.
• Physical Access Control Integration – Integrate with over 25 leading access control systems;  register credentials directly from the software and reduce the number of applications utilized during the issuance process.

Secure ID Badge Cards 

Large enterprises have more robust departments, and multiple roles that vary across privileges and access levels. Unlike small- midsize businesses that manage a single location with consolidated identity management needs, corporations have to leverage ID card types that ensure identity verification & security across complex IT environments and facilities. 

With more moving pieces, there’s more potential for security liabilities. With this in mind, we discourage large enterprises from using basic PVC cards, or magnetic stripe or barcode QR code technology as it is not nearly as secure nor extensive in capabilities. 

We suggest high frequency 13.56Mhz encrypted RFID cards like HID iClass or Seos for customizable user permissions and secure (difficult to duplicate) credentialing, but even low frequency prox will work for some applications.

 To read more on which HID Cards are best check out our blog here. 

ID Badge Cameras

In order for you to maximize the use of your ID printer and your enterprise software for HID RFID cards, you need a proper camera to take a high-quality photo. We strongly advise against computer webcams, camera phones, or reuse of old images, to input onto an ID badge especially if you’re trying to effectively manage authenticated access and identity verification. 

Dedicated ID Badge cameras such as the ValCam Pan Tilt Zoom ID Badging Camera are great for capturing instant high-resolution images of staff or third-party contractors with direct link via TWAIN or WIA drivers.

Enterprise Level Support 

Last but certainly not least when building or expanding your Enterprise Level ID printing system, is customizing a proper support plan. We can help repair existing printers or support the installation, configuration & testing of a new one. We offer training to your system administrators, supervisors, and operators. If your team wants ongoing support, you can leverage maintenance and troubleshooting to achieve the highest level of print quality, consistency, and error-free printing. 

With ADVANTIDGE, we have 20+ years of experience helping businesses of your caliber find the right system, and the right support plan to compliment your enterprise’s ID badge issuance needs. Contact us today!