BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Frost & Sullivan has distinguished Smartmatic with the 2011 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement based on its recent analysis of the identity management systems biometrics market.

“The expertise and ability to develop a valuable, vastly accepted technology for the industry thus makes Smartmatic the worthy recipient of the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Customer Value Enhancement of the Year Award,” said Frost & Sullivan research analyst Neelima Sagar. “Enhanced security, flexibility, and time-and mission-criticality are some of the major benefits that Smartmatic provides to its end users across all verticals. The company’s underlying objective has been to offer scalable solutions for superior client value,” added Sagar.

Smartmatic’s platform, the PARmobile, collects biometric and biographic data by using a modular design and open standards-based architecture, which helps end users achieve a significantly higher degree of accuracy and reliability.

“We are truly honored and delighted to receive this prestigious award. In our constant mission of creating and developing technologies that will improve efficiency and transparency, we’ve conceived our PARmobile as the toughest and most modern portable device available for collecting biometric and biographic data and covering all programs related to identity management, delivering the best value and effectiveness possible,” said Antonio Mugica, CEO of Smartmatic.

Some of Smartmatic’s significant projects in identity management include working along with Bolivian National Electoral Court for its Biometric Electoral Register; supplying new technologies to Mexico's Secretariat of Governance for their national registry; and also Smartmatic was selected by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Electoral Commission of Zambia for provision of enrollment terminals and software for Digital Mobile Voter Registration.

“The key factor of our success in providing superior customer value has been the combination of our agility in regard to quality, accuracy and responsiveness, with our centralized approach to logistics as well as our comprehensive insight from each of the projects we’ve been involved in, which has helped us exceed our clients’ expectations,” commented Mugica.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognizes companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development.

***About Smartmatic

Smartmatic is a multinational company that designs and deploys technological solutions aimed at helping governments to fulfill, in the most efficient way, their commitments toward their citizens. With a wide and proven experience in the United States, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Smartmatic is an important cutting-edge technology supplier for Governments. Smartmatic has more than 300 employees worldwide, with offices in the United States, Barbados, United Kingdom, Brazil, Panama, Venezuela, Philippines and Taiwan. For more information, please visit www.smartmatic.com.

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