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Sagem Sécurité announces that its subsidiary, Sagem Australasia wins a Frost and Sullivan Award
December 2009 by Marc Jacob
Sagem Australasia, a subsidiary of Sagem Sécurité, world leader in the development of
biometric technology and identity solutions, has received the 2009 Frost & Sullivan Australia
Best Practices Award for Biometrics Vendor of the Year.
In the Asia Pacific region, market participants were judged according to research conducted
for Frost & Sullivan’s latest report. From its headquarters in Sydney, Sagem Australasia has
demonstrated the best capacity for innovation based on the Frost & Sullivan ICT research
programme in Australia.
Speaking at the awards banquet dinner held in Sydney, Mark Dougan, Managing Director of
Frost & Sullivan, Australia and New Zealand, said, "We believe Sagem Australasia is the
leading player in the biometrics market in Australia. They offer probably the most
comprehensive range of biometric solutions including fingerprint, facial recognition and iris
recognition for a variety of applications. Sagem Australasia is the leading supplier of
biometrics technologies to the public sector in Australia with recent contract wins such as
supply of a facial recognition system to maintain driving license images in New South Wales,
a system that will hold 15 million images."
innovation.”
The company has also been aggressively expanding its market reach through various
acquisitions. Sagem Sécurité has identified identity solutions, passenger detection and
control and security for high value sites as its key focus over the years to come.
