security management

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 company’s previous experience in multimedia software development, Lenel swiftly moved to a leadership position in utilizing technology to most effectively protect an organization’s people, property and assets.

Information technology and networking are critically important to today’s corporate infrastructure. Lenel’s products are grounded in IT standards, and Lenel’s 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, Lenel’s pioneering efforts have brought the power of leading-edge technology and the flexibility of open systems architecture to a historically proprietary security market.

The company’s 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 Lenel’s 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 Lenel’s 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, Lenel’s extraordinary financial metrics provide Lenel with a singularly stable and viable growth model. This is illustrated by the company’s 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.