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A bundle is an aggregation of products or services brought together in one comprehensive package. Many businesses utilize bundles, also known as product or service bundling, for a variety of reasons.
One of the main reasons businesses decide to create
bundles is that consumers often search for the simplest and most direct way to
make a purchase. A bundle that has packaged together several products makes for
an easier purchasing decision on the consumer end. Another reason is related to
indications that consumer demands are relatively different and difficult to
pinpoint. For example, market research studies show that consumers will value
separate products at varying amounts. For instance, one customer will assign a
high value to “Product A” and a low value to “Product B,” while another
customer assigns a low value to “Product A” and a high value to “Product B.” In
this scenario both consumers want to buy both products, but each believes that
one of them is overpriced or not worth the money. By combining both products
(or more) into a package for a fixed price, both consumers are more likely to
purchase the package.
A third reason for bundling is that consumers benefit from the range of products that are included within a particular bundle. Several industries require products that either complement each other or without which functionality is difficult or limited. For example, most industrial or professional grade card printers require some sort of software ID program in order to perform specific types of print jobs. A consumer can either decide to purchase each product separately or he can opt for a bundle that includes both.
From the business end, manufacturers or vendors may choose to create a bundle with another manufacturer or vendor of a product or service belonging to a related industry.
ID card software is any software that provides secure identification, barcode and asset tracking and visitor management. The following post gives a brief overview of each of the basic elements central to an ID card software program.
Secure Identification
Secure identification is the bread and butter of ID card software and is the process by which professional-looking and good quality ID cards are created. These cards, which are created for and issued to a building visitor upon entrance, are typically printed on the spot and can be used for a variety of purposes, such as corporate and student ID cards, government credentials and driver’s licenses. Identification badges usually display the picture of the individual on the front and function either through a barcode printed on the front or back of the card, through a magnetic strip embedded alongside the back of the card (as with a credit card), or through biometrics, which is the recording of biological characteristics such as fingerprints or DNA.
Barcode and Asset Tracking
An asset is defined as any permanent piece of equipment or item used by a business on a regular and fixed basis. Assets can generally be split into two categories: tangible and non-tangible. Thus, computers, phones, desks, hardware, computer files and data are all considered assets and a company must be able to track them on a regular basis.
Asset tracking is integrally related to asset protection, or
retail loss prevention, which is an investigative method into the occurrence of
workplace theft. According to the 2006 National Retail Security Survey, company
losses and their percentages are split into 5 main categories: 46.8% from employee theft, 31.6% from
shoplifting, 14.4% from administrative error, 3.75% from vendor error, and 2.86%
from unknown error. While there is no way to determine how much revenue goes unaccounted
for yearly through retail loss, failure to properly track business assets can
lead to very high costs for the company, estimated at billions of dollars a
year.
Some of the main problems associated with asset tracking are
the amount of time needed to locate missing items, repurchasing lost items and the
complexity involved with substantiating asset inventories, all of which
contribute to revenue loss. Jolly, an asset tracking software provider, allows a company to track
their assets by connecting to existing databases such as MS Access, MS SQL
Server, MySQL, Excel spreadsheets, CSV or text files.
Visitor Management
Visitor management refers to the system used to track public building traffic by recording the identity, location and number of people entering and exiting the site on a daily basis. Visitor management software typically focuses on three basic elements: visitor registration, badge printing and creating reports from collected data.
After the Oklahoma Federal Building was bombed by Timothy
McVeigh in 1995, which took 168 lives, injured more than 680 people and cost approximately
$652 million in damages, a report later determined that he carried out preliminary
walkthroughs of the building’s lobby. Investigative access to a corporation’s
visitor management data reports, which record an individual’s whereabouts and visitor
frequency, are instrumental in preventing similar events.
Usage of a typical visitor management software system
requires that a person entering the building register for a company-issued
identification badge, usually printed on the spot, which he swipes every time
enters or exits the building. The badge is also used to gain access to
different parts of the building, in some cases including elevators. At the end
of a given period the information amassed regarding the traffic of all building
visitors is created into a report and stored.
ID Card Software Categories
Different vendors divide their software options in variant ways. For example, Asure ID divides its software features into 4 different software packages (Solo, Enterprise, Express and Exchange), while Jolly categorizes them as Standard Edition Software and Premier Edition Software.