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Cardholder Badge Tab - click to enlargeAMAG Technology offers five advanced software products scaled to meet Access Control and Security Management needs ranging from small, remote facilities to multi-national organizations and everything in between. Each is compatible with Windows XP, Vista Business, and Vista Ultimate operating systems. AMAG builds upon open architecture standards to ensure interoperability with a wide range of peripherals and information sharing with database brands like SQL®, Oracle®, and SAP®. AMAG software offers an easy and affordable migration path between each product to preserve the value of your investments.

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AMAG software is designed and tested in accordance with the latest Microsoft style guides for Windows XP, Vista Business, and Vista Ultimate, and has passed the appropriate independent compatibility tests. AMAG software is always fully tested before release and is always completely backwards and forwards compatible with other versions. You can start on the smallest single site system and migrate to the largest multiple location system as your needs change with no operator retraining or complex reconfiguration.

Digital Video - click to enlargeOne of the strengths of AMAG software is the ability to handle multiple buildings, sites and locations. Communication can be across the LAN or WAN or using dial up modems. Increasingly organizations are creating multiple facility access control systems across their whole enterprise. This centralized command and control reduces cost and often creates an increased level of physical security, particularly for small facilities without on site security guards outside normal working hours.

In addition to the very wide range of built in system features that are provided as standard with all AMAG software editions, AMAG provides a wide range of additional software modules. These include Digital Video Management, CCTV Switching, Biometrics, Smart Card Management, Intercom, Intrusion Alarms Management, and much more. Each of these modules has been carefully integrated to work with any of the five access control and security management products AMAG offers.

Video Verification - click to enlargeAll five products use the powerful Microsoft® SQL Server database. Symmetry Business, AMAG's most cost-effective system, and Symmetry Professional, AMAG's most widely used system, use Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000), a royalty-free data engine built and based on core SQL Server technology.

The charts below will help you to determine which AMAG product best addresses your situation. The AMAG SEIWG product was developed to meet the unique physical security needs of the U.S. Department of Defense and its various agencies.

  Symmetry Business Symmetry Professional Symmetry Enterprise Symmetry Global
Reader Capacity 1 to 16 1 to 512 unrestricted unrestricted
Camera Capacity unrestricted* unrestricted* unrestricted* unrestricted*
Operating System Windows XP
Vista Business
Vista Ultimate
Windows XP
Vista Business
Vista Ultimate
Server 2003
Windows XP
Vista Business
Vista Ultimate
Server 2003
Windows XP
Vista Business
Vista Ultimate
Database Engine MSDE MSDE SQL Server 2000 or 2005 MSDE, SQL Server 2000 or 2005
No. of Clients up to 3 up to 9 Unrestricted Unrestricted
Types of Clients Full Admin / Web Full Admin / Web  Full Admin / Web / Alarm Full Admin / Web / Alarm / Central Card Handler
Standard Features
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Software Options
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Cluster Capability
No No Yes Yes
Access Hardware
Supported
MultiNODE Business

Edge Network Controller
MultiNODE-2
M2000
M2100
M2150
Edge Network Controller
MultiNODE-2
M2000
M2100
M2150
Edge Network Controller
MultiNODE-2
M2000
M2100
M2150
Edge Network Controller
SEIWG Compatible
No Yes Yes Yes
* Requires Symmetry Video Management

Standard Features:

  • Intuitive application interface
  • Comprehensive online help
  • Dynamic map screens with manual commands
  • Dynamic alarms management linked to maps
  • Flexible card administration
  • Expansive video badging features
  • Comprehensive analysis reporting
  • Visitor management tools
  • Optimized for Windows XP, Vista Business, and Vista Ultimate
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine for Symmetry Business and Symmetry Professional)
    and Microsoft SQL 2005
  • Dial-up or network (TCP/IP) configurations
  • Client/server or Web client architecture
  • Open Database compliant
  • Wide range of optional security management modules