Welcome to Alcazar Biostore.

Alcazar Biostore is the Alcazar multi-modal biometric verification and identification solution.

Biostore has been used by large organisations in the financial sector since 2006 and stores well over 20 million identities, performing thousands of enrolments and tens of thousands verifications every day. The store is aimed at abstracting the complexities of biometric modes, biometric operations, biometric quality, enrolment and re-enrolment rules, and SDKs from the business application developer, and provides a simple, easy to understand REST API interface, without the need of understanding biometric standards and proprietary formats.

Getting started

Implementing a biometric store is comprised of a few, simple steps.

  • Decide on your business process and technical constraints resulting from it. Granted, this might not be a simple step, but a good understanding of the risk profile of your organisation and the reasons why biometric authentication has been chosen to address some of these risks is paramount to design the correct technical solution.
  • Configure the store to be aware of available biometric modes, and engines, as well as enrolment and verification rules.
  • Build a client application Your client application calls the store API, which are simple high-level verbs such as enrol, verify, or identify. If you chose to use a client enabling framework, such as the Alcazar Biometric Client Framework, this task can be even simpler

Biostore is implemented as .Net REST API using the Microsoft .Net framework - and can therefore easily be integrated with any business application, be that web-based applications, desktop applications, or apps on tablets or phones.

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