Lenel Systems International, Inc., headquartered in
Rochester, New York, is a leading provider of software and integrated
systems for the corporate security market and government security markets.
Founded in 1991 by husband and wife Elena and Rudy Prokupets, Lenel
launched its OnGuard® security product line in 1995. Building upon
the companys previous experience in multimedia software development,
Lenel swiftly moved to a leadership position in utilizing technology
to most effectively protect an organizations people, property
and assets.
Information technology and networking are critically important to
todays corporate infrastructure. Lenels products are grounded
in IT standards, and Lenels orientation as a software developer
has enabled it to be embraced by the IT community. By utilizing the
latest software industry practices and standards in the development
of its applications, Lenels pioneering efforts have brought
the power of leading-edge technology and the flexibility of open systems
architecture to a historically proprietary security market.
The companys vision is to build Total Security Knowledge Management
Solutions by seamlessly integrating synergistic technologies
in an open architecture environment. Lenel's products are designed
to optimize productivity and returns on investments in security management
for system users and value added resellers alike. The Lenel OnGuard
integrated solution offers an all-encompassing security environment
for multi-server enterprise system topology, central server systems,
and mobile enterprise systems; supporting applications for access
control, alarm monitoring, ID management, physical asset management,
digital video surveillance, recording/archive management, smart card,
biometrics and visitor management functions. Benefits to the customer
include total security management with centralized administration,
high performance and reliability and scalability as needs grow beyond
the initial installation. Lenel has a well-established partnership
with the world's leading system integrators, who install and maintain
Lenel products for more than 10,000 customers in over 50 countries
on six continents throughout the world.
Beyond its technology, Lenel also boasts a matchless entrepreneurial
culture that promotes innovation and teamwork through its meritocratic
structure and its lack of bureaucracy. Nearly all Lenel employees
are incentivized through a corporate employee stock option program
and through Lenels bonus and profit sharing plan. Throughout
its history, the employee turnover rate has been nearly negligible,
especially among its executives and research and development staffs.
Few layers of management and an open-door management policy enable
each Lenel employee to feel the importance of his or her role in the
momentum of the organization.
The sum of the efforts of Lenels employees has lead to remarkable
results. Lenel has become the company of choice for such security-conscious
organizations as Cisco, Microsoft, all three New York City area airports
(JFK, LaGuardia and Newark), the U.S. Department of Defense and the
U.S. Navy. Further, Lenels extraordinary financial metrics provide
Lenel with a singularly stable and viable growth model. This is illustrated
by the companys inclusion for each of the past three years on
both the Inc. 500 and the Deloitte & Touche/Forbes Technology
Fast 500 lists, which rank the fastest growing corporations in the
nation. In addition, Lenel has ranked among the top ten Rochester-based
fast track companies for the past three years, and has received industry
awards for technological innovation.