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While Access Control as a Service (ACaaS) is still a relatively niche segment worldwide, it’s likely to record a spectacular growth on the long-term, researchers from the IHS have recently revealed. In fact, the global market size is expected to exceed $530 million by 2018 and $1.8 billion by 2025, with the main growth drivers […]

Almost 50 per cent of British SMEs expect to grow over the next 12 months, a new report issued by the government’s British Business Bank has revealed. The ‘Small Business Finance Markets 2014’ surveyed 1,000 small businesses and found that 46 per cent of small and medium enterprise owners expect their businesses to grow over […]

A solid and reliable fire roll call system designed to streamline the evacuation of personnel in case of an emergency (such as an industrial fire) is a vital, life-saving measure for any firm, especially those from the industrial and manufacturing segment. That was precisely the case with an industrial fire that broke out at Moray […]

The UK employment rate – the proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 in work – has reached 73.0%, higher than for May to July 2014 (72.8%) and higher than for a year earlier (71.8%), the latest figures released by the ONS (The Office for National Statistics) were able to reveal. The statistical data […]

Integrated Access Control Systems can help prevent crime against business premises, which accounted for 70% of all police recorded crime in 2013/14, according to figures released by the UK Statistics Authority and 82% of all crime covered by the 2013/14 Crime Survey for England and Wales. The crime survey focused on premises in four industry […]

Biometric Access Control and multi-factor authentication could be used by up to 20 percent of enterprises by 2016, a recent report by IDC has forecast. In its FutureScape for Security report, the research company has addressed security concerns in a number of technology areas, including biometric identification and user management. The report predicts that in […]

Employee management systems can help UK businesses grow and take on more work despite the ongoing capacity issues revealed by the latest JobsOutlook survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Over a third of UK businesses (36%) have no capacity to take on more work, and almost three in five (57%) have ‘little capacity’, […]

36 percent of companies worldwide have partial or no appropriate physical access control systems in place, a recent study has been able to reveal. Trustwave’s 2014 State of Risk Report, a 16-month comprehensive survey of over 400 IT professionals in more than 50 countries, also found that 81 of companies percent state they have full […]

Time and attendance systems designed to monitor and manage workers’ activity can help companies better manage employee turnover, a phenomenon that is likely to affect up to 37 percent of UK workers in 2015. A survey from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) has revealed a dramatic increase in potential employee turnover from 2014, […]

Central government employees are spending nearly twenty minutes extra in office every day after a biometric time and attendance system was installed across multiple offices across New Delhi, a news report on the matter has been able to reveal. If this is converted into working days, with an average of 8.5 hours per working day, […]

A secret room built within a house can improve the home’s overall level of security, and a biometric access control system is the best solution for restricting access to such an area. While secret rooms are particularly popular on movie sets and/or crime and spy novels, the truth of the matter is that they’re also […]

Over 50 percent of all SMEs across the UK are experiencing increased operating costs, which is having a negative impact on small business cash flow, a recent survey has been able to reveal. The latest Close Brothers Business Barometer survey revealed that 59 per cent of UK SMEs are experiencing an increase in their operating […]