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crosschecks of national and international control lists—
during the visa application process.
Securiport’s eVisa Management System is more timely,
cost-effective, and secure than the current application
process. By saving travelers’ time and eliminating many of
the hassles associated with obtaining a visa today, the
system streamlines the visa application process, and
inevitably increases the amount of visitors to countries,
helping international business and boosting local
economies.
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April 2016 Edition
IoT Adoption Is Driving Use of
Platform as Service
The widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) is
driving platform as a service (PaaS) utilization, according
to Gartner predicts that, by 2020, more than 50 percent of
all new applications developed on PaaS will be IoT-centric,
disrupting conventional architecture practices.
For example, a country such as Honduras could benefit
greatly from implementing an electronic visa system.
Honduras, located in Central America, is home to some of
the world’s best beaches, coral reefs and diving locations,
which make it a great location for travelers who wish to
experience the wonders of Central America. However, the
long process for applying for a visa can be a major deterrent
to tourism in the country. In 2015, the Honduran government
made tourism a national priority, believing that the tourism
industry will not only benefit the country by stimulating the
economy, but also by strengthening the national identity,
increasing development and providing Hondurans with a
higher standard of living. By implementing an electronic visa
system, like Securiport’s eVisa Management System,
countries, such as Honduras, could save time and money by
operating more efficiently to improve the way they
communicate and engage with citizens.
By utilizing Securiport’s eVisa Management System, which
leverages their Integrated Immigration Control System
(IICS) and Intelligent Information Management System
(IIMS), governments and immigration officials can equip
themselves with the actionable data and information needed
to confirm a traveler’s identity at ports of entry and exit, as
well as at each stage of the immigration process. This
creates safer travels and a more secure nation that, when
coupled with Securiport’s IICS and IIMS, provide a complete
immigration control system that is tailored to provide
benefits to both travelers and governments.
By addressing key challenges and streamlining the process
it takes to apply and receive a visa, the number of total visa
applications and number of visitors will inevitably increase,
improving revenue generated from tourism. Government
officials, business travelers, and tourists alike will benefit
from a more convenient and efficient visa application
process
About Securiport
Securiport LLC is a global leader in the design and
implementation of passenger biometric recognition,
immigration processing, and intelligent information
management and reporting software systems. With
headquarters in Washington, DC, USA, Securiport partners
with governments around the world. Securiport’s Civil
Aviation
and
Immigration
Security
Systems,
a
comprehensive security product that performs secure
biometric recognition of travelers at mmigration posts,
provides proprietary intelligent information for the
identification of potential security risks, criminal activity, and
disease prevention based on the comparison and
multidimensional analysis of the biometric data and traveler
information collected during immigration processing. Learn
more at http://www.Securiport.com.
Benoit Lheureux, research vice president at Gartner
“IoT adoption will drive additional use of PaaS to implement
IoT-centric business applicationsbuilt around event-driven
architecture and IoT data, instead of business applications
built around traditional master data,” said Benoit Lheureux,
research vice president at Gartner.
“New IoT-centric business applications will drive a
transformation in application design practices that focus on
real-time contextually rich decisions, event-analysis,
lightweight workflow, and broad access to Web-scale data.”
Most new IoT-centric solutions will be implemented on IoT
platforms, a form of multifunctional comprehensive PaaS
that is a hybrid, architecturally coherent integration of
applicati