Smart Card Talk

July 2007 • Volume 12 Number 7

The Smart Card Alliance Smart Card Products and Services Directory: Bringing Buyers to Members

How can the Smart Card Alliance help bring buyers to members? This question drove the development of a soon-to-be-launched feature on our public web site – the new Smart Card Products and Services Directory. We're bringing you a preview of the directory in this month's newsletter.

Members: Enter your
product and service
information now

Each month, the Smart Card Alliance web site has over 80,000 unique visits to our public web site, with many of the visitors using the popular Smart Card Reader Catalog to find products and suppliers. The new Smart Card Products and Services Directory greatly expands the range of products and services that can be found – allowing potential customers or business partners visiting the Alliance web site to identify companies or organizations that provide specific products or services to their industry of interest.

The directory is straightforward to use. Visitors to the directory may view listings by industry or by product offering or can search the directory for specific offerings. By clicking on a member listing, visitors will find a brief description of the member's business, a link to the member's web site, and a full list of the product and service offerings entered in the directory.

Entering member product and service information is easy as well. Members login to the members-only web site and select the industries that are served. Once affiliated industries are established, the products and services offered to those industries can be entered.

The directory is being implemented in 2 phases. In the first phase, members are entering their information on the industries that they serve and the products and services offered to those industries. Once the directory is populated by a majority of members who have entered data, the directory will be opened for full public access.

37 members are currently showcased in the Smart Card Products and Services Directory. Visit the preview of the directory to see products and services offered by:

ACI Worldwide	Healthmeans	Scheidt & Bachmann USA
ACS Government Solutions	HID Global Corporation	SCM Microsystems
AMAG Technology	Hirsch Electronics	SI International
ASSA ABLOY ITG	Hypercom Corporation	Siemens Medical Solutions
ActivIdentity	ID TECH	StepNexus
Bell Identification B.V.	Identification Technology Partners	Tecnologistica de Costa Rica
CardLogix	Identity Alliance, LLC	Thales e-Security
Corestreet	Infineon Technologies	Transport for London
CPI Card Group	Keycorp Limited	Unisys Corporation
Cryptography Research, Inc.	Legic Identsystems Ltd.	Utah Transit Authority
Exponent, Inc.	Lenel Systems International	Wisconsin Physicians Service
Gemalto North America	NBS Technologies, Inc.	Insurance Corporation
Giesecke & Devrient	NXP Semiconductors

Don't be left out of this new industry resource! To enter your company's information, go to http://www.smartcardalliance.org/member/directory in the members-only section of the website. (You will need your member login to access this page.) From this interface, you can select the industries you serve and the products/services you offer in those industries.

So, the next step is yours. We're looking forward to providing a new resource to the smart card community to help buyers reach our member suppliers who provide the products that they're seeking.