Can you tell us about your company and its area of activity?

Founded as a system integrator in 2003, Proline is the most innovative and fastest growing integrator company of Turkey with over 200 employees today.

With our motto “Integrated Mind” and our goal “Customer Satisfaction” in mind, Proline defines itself as Distinct, Expert, Solution Oriented and Dynamic. The fact that our sales revenue has doubled each year since our foundation is a clear proof of it.

Proline continues its operation all across Turkey with its Istanbul headquarter and Ankara regional office along with support offices over 20 cities.

Proline is accessible 7/24 through its call center.

We wish to establish long term business partnerships with our clients and become their trustworthy business partner.

A number of public institutions appear in your reference list. How do public institutions respond to e-government solutions? Could you make an overall summary of Istanbul and Turkey?

The concept of e-government that is growing day by day both at home and abroad is arousing interest fast in our country as well, so that it can reach where it deserves to stand. In that context our public institutions, by carrying out their responsibility and providing integration of web-based services in their areas, are granting the ease of fast data access to the citizens also through online media. Institutions that have not e-government integration yet are continuing their infrastructure works. Thanks to the flexible and flawless infrastructure of e-government applications whose density of use is increasing especially Istanbul-wide, citizens are being provided with the opportunity of receiving high-quality service through online.

How do e-government applications contribute to public institutions?

First of all, from the perspective of public institutions, more precise and flowing working of internal processes is being provided so that transactions could be made fast and correctly. Thus, gains on the part of the citizens increase. The fact that many of query operations that were formerly made personally can now be made online lessens the margin of error by lessening the density before the doors of the institution.

If we were to project into the future of informatics technologies, what awaits us in the future?

Thanks to the digital world that is growing each day and the technologies that advances very fast, and taking into account the technologies that we saw in movies and could not even imagine are doable now, I believe that very important steps will be taken especially in identity identification technologies. Taking into account the practicality and gains that chip technologies that we use have already contributed to our lives, I think that biometric systems will be more in demand in the coming years. It might be possible to envision that biometrical data that is peculiar to one person will substitute the pins that we use today; and that, by making any kind of identification and verification operation by means of biometrical data that is peculiar to one person such as iris, vein print, finger print; it will become pointless to carry a number of data and value such as money and jewelry that we now have to carry physically.

Where does Cardist stand in the sector? What do you think Cardist contributes to the sector?

The first to light the way of smart card world and card technologies and the first to realize this in our region, Cardist is fulfilling a quite crucial responsibility for our country. The fair, in which we were able to follow up the smart card applications that came to foreground in the world and the new advancements in the banking sector, also provides opportunities to develop many business partnerships both in our country and across the geography that we are located. I believe that it is an appropriate platform to develop and advertize new products by doing some kind of technology shopping.

How are you preparing for Cardist 2010? What sort of novelties of your company will we see at Cardist 2010? Which products will you display? Could you inform us a little about these products?

Just like we do with every project of ours, we are continuing our preparations for Cardist Fair with the same awareness. We will break the ground at the fair with the laser individualization technology that marks a new epoch in card individualization technologies. In the name of green technology, we will introduce individualization technologies on cards which increase environmental consciousness by reducing the consumables that are used to zero and which last longer, up to 10 years, and by polycarbonate.

Besides the laser individualization systems, we will also have a small demo application for finger print and data capture systems in biometrics area that we are also active. Besides those, we will also display the demo of our computer-based security money safe which renders money transactions done in cashier’s offices in banks safer.

What are your expectations from Cardist as a fair and a summit?

As the name of the Cardist Card & Smart Technologies Fair the third of which will be held this year suggests, I believe that smart technologies will come to the foreground more. And we will also contribute with some smart technologies as well. Leaving this issue as a surprise, I wish to reemphasize that we are expecting our clients at our stand.

We are living in an age in which technology changes fast. What kind of contributions do you think Cardist will make to the sector?

As you already know, a number of companies ranging from hardware to software segment that are leading companies of their sectors participate in Cardist. Just like in any other sector, there are a lot of problems to be overcome in the card and smart technologies sector. In that sense Cardist plays a role in the growth of the market by creating a giant synergy, by adding novelty to the sector through creating rival companies and also collaborations, and it will take this role to further steps.

This year a jury that is composed of top-level executives in finance sector will choose companies which are deemed worthy of Cardist Awards (Smartwards) among exhibitors. What do you think about that?

I think that Smartwards which will be granted this year for the first time will add spice to Cardist. When we take a look at fair organizations in parallel sectors abroad, we can clearly see that such awards that are granted in this context excite enthusiasm in participants and that more determined works are undertaken for the next years. In that context I believe that this year the fair will become even more interesting thanks to Smartwards, and I thank the Cardist Team.