Performix™
Biometric knowledge at your fingertips
Performix™ lets you report and visualise critical factors
- Vulnerabilities and risks
- False accepts and rejects
- Demographic problems
- Performance trends
Performix™ simplifies your data into powerful analysis reports and provides interactive data visualisation with drill-down. It can interface with any underlying biometric engine to allow tuning of rules associated with biometric matching.
Why Use Performix™?
A user of biometric systems needs to know:
- The potential for serious mishaps
- Information about the system in real-time
- Why they get false rejections or acceptances
- How to ensure the system performs at its maximum
- That they can select the best system for their specific requirements
- How to manage and optimise system capacity and plan for upgrades
- That the system will comply with corporate governance and audit requirements
Performix™ is a management information system for biometric databases.
It provides all the information you need to effectively manage your biometric system and its performance.
- System Evaluations
- Risk Analysis / System Design
- Operational Reporting and Audit
- Multi - Modal Analysis
- Identification of Vulnerabilities
- Manual Data Inspection
- Set-up of Surveillance Systems
- Investigation Workflow
Questions to Ask:
- What is my real level of potential false accepts?
- Are some people having more difficulty using the system, and why?
- How should business rules and parameters be adjusted for optimal system performance?
- What can my biometric data tell me about the use of my system?
- Would an upgrade produce significant benefits, or make things worse?
- How would another type of biometric affect performance?
- Does the quality of my enrolment data impact performance?
- Could my current enrolment data be used on a new system?
- Is my biometric system capable of withstanding a detailed audit for corporate governance?
Examples Of Use:
Management in Production:
Performix™ can continually assess operational system performance, provide alerts on vulnerabilities and recommend changes to rules and other parameters. When biometric algorithms need to be upgraded, Performix™ can test the upgrade on your live data without affecting ongoing operations. No production manager should be without Performix™.
Assessment for Development:
Performix™ provides rapid analysis of performance changes during algorithm development & system tuning. It can determine optimum system settings and show exception cases. It is ideal for biometric system developers as well as informed managers of production systems. Every biometric system developer should be equipped with Performix™.
Evaluation for Selection and Design:
Performix™ allows you to manage, run and compare multiple biometric test scenarios. For instance, quality of enrolment, age and ethnicity can be evaluated across several different biometric engines from different vendors. It can also estimate expected queuing times or examine multi-modal options.
Performix™ is invaluable for providing an independent, detailed, quantitative evaluation of potential suppliers, so that you can be assured that your selection will meet your requirements.
Fraud Detection and Investigation:
Performix™ enhances the detection and investigation of identity fraud through customised reports, data mining techniques and the unique display of potential problems. It reduces the amount of time needed to find fraud and boosts the effectiveness of investigators.
Putting It All Together
Biometric systems generate huge amounts of data: images; scores; templates; logs.
Conventional management information systems (MIS) are not designed to manage biometric data. In contrast to other access control or identity verification techniques, such as passwords or smart cards, the underlying science of biometrics is based on probability and so biometric systems need to be analysed statistically.
Performix™ puts you in control of the system and lets you:
- Manage all aspects of operational performance
- Identify vulnerabilities and risks
- Measure recognition performance (False accepts and rejects)
- Compare different vendors during evaluation
- Tune the vendor’s parameters for best outcomes
- Check on ethnic and demographic issues
- Prepare for upgrades and extensions
- Tag and investigate events and people of interest
Performix™ simplifies your data into powerful analysis reports and provides interactive data visualisation with the ability to drill-down into the data and its parametric information. This provides reporting and inquiry capabilities that go well beyond what you would expect in a conventional MIS reporting system.
Performix™ can interface with any biometric engine to provide vendor-independent tuning, assessment and performance monitoring.
Performix™ is a management information system for biometric data. It provides all of
the information you need to effectively manage your biometric system and its performance.
Can you afford to be without Performix™?
Contact Biometix to arrange an on-line demonstration
Performix™ has been designed and developed by BIOMETIX
Biometix is a specialist biometrics consulting company with over fifteen years experience in the management, evaluation, vulnerability analysis and risk assessment of biometric technologies. Our software, which has been used for many years in the consulting company, helps manage, understand and get the best performance from biometric systems.
