Energy Case Study

Challenge

A global energy company specializing in production and wholesale distribution has been a longtime user of the LenelS2 OnGuard access control system. When OnGuard was first implemented within this company, the system was primarily used to provide and manage credentialing, field device integration, access permission management, alarm monitoring, video analytics & management, and reporting.

As time went on, the company’s Director of Global Security was charged with delivering cost-savings and meeting additional system-wide performance benchmarks. Working towards delivering those mandates, the OnGuard system increasingly became the linchpin of the company’s many interconnected systems, taking up a role as an innovative Enterprise Resource Management System (ERMS).

Solution 

The OnGuard solution was leveraged to serve as the primary database for the company’s many enterprise systems. As these systems were increasingly integrated with OnGuard, not only did routine activities improve operationally, but it became possible to identify and quantify the positive financial impacts of the integrations.

Results 

As the company and the Global Director of Security worked to ensure tight integration between the OnGuard system and the other enterprise software solutions, resource savings were joined by the increasing realization that OnGuard provided an access control solution that delivered power and integration opportunities unlike any other solution in the market.

The OnGuard system was uniquely able to deliver on each of the essential, mission-critical attributes expected of the integrated security solution for this global company. Delivering on these essential attributes made OnGuard the true open-architecture access control system of choice, consistently delivering a dynamic, adaptive software suite capable of seamlessly integrating into all aspects of the enterprise.