ACC217:Worksheet.

02/By group: GROUP 5 Date: 04/10/2022

Name of Company/Industry: SMARTMATIC
Website (if applicable): www.smartmatic.com

General Instruction: Using online searches, website visits: find out how the company
manage to be competitive on their respective companies with the use of Technology
and information Systems.

Deliverables: Worksheet individual submission and a PowerPoint presentation to be

presented by a representative from each group

A. Give a brief description/nature of the company (About/Profile of the company)

Smartmatic, founded in Florida in 2000, primarily produced secure software for

banking and IoT. Following the "hanging chad" event in the 2000 US election, the
company's attention moved to improving voting. Smartmatic is a US Department of
Defense-approved vendor and a founding member of the Department of Homeland
Security's Election Infrastructure Subsector Council.

Smartmatic is the global leader in applied cybersecurity and secure election

technology, from voter registration to vote tabulation to results reporting and auditing.
Its auditable and cybersecurity technologies have handled over 6.8 billion
transactions since their inception in the United States in 2000. Five billion votes were
cast in elections across five continents, with no security breaches. They offer e-
government technologies that assist cities in being more competent, safer, and more
connected.

B. List down some competitors of the said company in the same industry

The top 15 competitors of SMARTMATIC

1. KONATO
2. PRINCETON CONSULTANTS
3. INSURANCE CONSULTING GROUPS
4. VERITAS
 5. eBALLOT
6. SIMPLY VOTING
7. AVANTE INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY REVENUE AND COMPETITORS
8. CLEAR BALLOT
9. SURVEY AND BALLOTS REVENUE AND COMPETITORS
10. ELECTION SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE REVENUE AND COMPETITORS
11. ELECTION BUDDY
12. PCC REVENUE AND COMPETITORS
13. INTELIVOTE SYSTEMS REVENUE AND COMPETITORS
14. nVOTES ONLINE VOTING REVENUE AND COMPETITORS
15. SCYTI

C. 1. Identify and describe current information systems and new technologies

used by the company
2. Cite specific information system/application/technology used in relation to
accounting/finance and provide description and purposes.
1.
With the help of Smartmatic's secure technology and an extensive array of services,
which ensures accuracy at every phase of the voting process, election officials can
conduct any sort of election.

Elections

Voter Management - is a software that generates reliable databases which

assist authorities in validating voter eligibility on election day.

e-Counting - improving vote counting for paper-based elections. While

maintaining the paper ballot as the final input for auditing, using optical
scanners to digitize paper ballots enhances the accuracy, efficiency, and
transparency of vote counting.

e-Voting - voting machines facilitating the entire voting process, enhancing

the election experience for voters, poll workers, and other officials. Voting
machines in Smartmatic’s portfolio work are combined with their Election
Management Platform. Premium and Classic are their two major voting
machines that serve any type of election.
 Election Management Platform - This platform was entirely designed with
users in mind. Election officials are directed through their tasks and processes
by its user-friendly process interface with incorporated instructions, reducing
time, inaccuracies, and the requirement for extensive training.

Manual Elections - to strengthen the integrity and transparency of manual

elections.

• SmartTally - aids operators in consolidating centers and poll workers in

voting stations with the precise and secure consolidation and
distribution of paper tally records
• Central Scanner - it automates the counting of votes in manual
elections by scanning ballots at a centralized location more efficiently
and accurately.
• Precinct Scanning - secures the paper ballot as the final input for
auditing while enhancing the accuracy, efficiency, and transparency of
counting of votes in precincts.

eGov

Improving the quality of life for citizens

Identity management - Smartmatic also created a set of solutions in order to

provide individuals, companies, and governments with the most accessible, effective,
and secure method of managing identities.

• Digital Identity Solution - A seamless, end-to-end, app-based platform that is

secure, simple to use, and scalable. It enables organizations and businesses
to simply and securely provide verified digital identities to any qualified
individual. It also allows identity verification based on IdQ™ technology which
was launched globally in 2018. This technology uses an algorithm fueled by
data aggregation and AI to determine a person's Identity Assurance
Coefficient during a transaction.
• VIU Desktop - A multifunctional biographic and biometric information
processing system with specialized hardware for biometric registrations and
identity verification of citizens.

Air Quality Management - assist authorities in improving the air quality in their cities
with an integrated, intelligent control built based on their technologies. Furthermore, it
decreases pollution levels, gets rid of COVID-19 as well as germs, fungus, viruses,
and other pathogens.

2.
Cyber security
The Global Leader in Election-Related Cybersecurity. Smartmatic employs
Cybersecurity to safeguard and ensure the integrity of our systems. Smartmatic
technology is regularly tested and assessed, including rigorous source-code and
hardware evaluations by independent parties such as PwC, Deloitte, and the UK
National Cyber Security Center. Effective security goes beyond simply repelling
intruders. It avoids attempts, minimizes downtime, speeds up recovery, and adjusts
to interruptions. It must enable elections without delay in an increasingly complicated
security environment.

Cybersecurity is our first and most important design consideration and its principles
are based on 5 main pillars:
1. Defense-in-depth
For total security, employs a defense-in-depth philosophy that employs numerous
levels of protection as well as different suitability protections. This secures voting
systems without losing usefulness or accessibility. This means that the user is only
granted the access or rights required to complete their responsibilities.

2. Segregation of duties
Assigns separate phases in a process to different persons, decreasing their ability to
manage or change the process.

3. Zero trust
The zero trust approach to security architecture design is founded on the notion that
every interaction begins in an untrusted state. This technique necessitates the
authentication, authorization, and continual validation of all users, whether internal or
external.

4. Transparency
Transparency is a critical component of a secure election design. A system that
creates proof, a trail of transparency, that is both understandable and verifiable,
 increases the reliability and security of the system. This will create a verifiable path in
which every stage is available to stakeholder inspection, hence increasing public trust
and confidence in the process. Voters require a free and fair mechanism that allows
them to certify that their vote was cast correctly, saved correctly, and counted
correctly.

D. Look for purposes/reasons even strategies on how these technologies/IS

meets its business needs.

Smartmatic is the world’s leading provider in terms of applied cybersecurity

technology, which are used for elections and government systems. The company
strives to live up to their commitment, with their clients, and the goal to have free and
fair elections. Their purpose was to record and tabulate a total of more than 6.5 billion
votes with the help of electronic voting technology and services that make the
elections more transparent and auditable. It increases the transparency, efficiency,
and integrity of elections to make voting more convenient with the better use of
technology and cybersecurity in voting systems. Wide range tailored services are
offered, in addition to software and hardware deployment that guarantees success of
the election project. The Project Management Institute which is globally renowned
standards serve as the foundation for the project management methods that are
implemented. They can advise the team before, during, and after the election;
furthermore, they offer continuing help in between throughout the event. Smartmatic
has vast expertise when it comes to hiring, onboarding, and training local individuals
in all important jobs; especially the poll workers, technicians, support staff, and
warehouse workers. The service team of Smartmatic provides the following; efficient
training, online and/or on-site, provision and deployment field support, effective voter
education, and education and awareness campaign, and campaign of education and
awareness to assist in developing faith in the system. It is widely known that efficient
and effective procurement procedures are critical in order to complete projects on
schedule and within the budget. With their experience of performing electoral
activities all over the world; they have developed networks, which allows them to
effectively acquire and distribute resources whenever and wherever you may be.
Smartmatic builds individual plans for each customer to match their quality and
pricing expectation, as well as to simplify their pre-election procedures. The following
benefits are; complete international and domestic logistical cooperation, worldwide
supply chain and logistics network, customizable and cost-effective manufacture at
market competitive plants. Smartmatic’s logistics professionals can alleviate the
 burden associated with the acquisition, delivery, and the return of the voting
equipment and network devices. Their skilled supply chain professionals will create a
flow diagram for the whole operation, considering the uncertainties. Smartmatic
ensures that all supplies are provided on schedule and to correct locations, allowing
poll workers, election officials, and field workers to complete their responsibilities
effectively. Currently, the world has been struck by the pandemic, COVID-19, which
results in the expansion of its risk-mitigation portfolio that focuses on the continuity of
election during its crisis. They have come up with the best course of action that finds
an appropriate balance between online voting, scaling up manual elections, and
online ballot delivery while preventing the virus from spreading. The first action was
Safe In-Person Voting which is to collaborate closely with the experts to take a
holistic approach through assessing all procedures, elections process, and
communications by their election process design methodology in helping to avoid the
risk of infection based on science. It includes official guidelines, and provides you
with a clear identification of risks, services, recommended safety measures,
materials, and products that are a must in deploying safety during safe elections. The
second action is Safe At-Home Voting which is all about bringing the ballot to the
voter through an additional voting channel. It enables voters to have access to their
ballot which is safe within their homes via mobile devices, tablets, iPad, or
computers. In-person voting is not an option in this course of action. The last one is
Safe Election Worker which follows the same approach as the first action which is
Safe In-Person Voting. However, the difference between them is that Safe Election
Worker focuses on lessening the infection for the workers of the election that are
located in other facilities such as help desks, warehouses, and tally centers.

E. Give some important factors that you discover why the company has a
competitive advantage.

• Smartmatic Company makes voting more accessible and transparent

It has helped and assisted hundreds of millions of voters worldwide because

through Smartmatic, voting becomes more widely available, the process of
manually counting ballots is quickened, and fewer employees will be required
as a result of improved technology and security practices in voting systems.
 • Smartmatic Company is purely automated

From registration to results, the election process can only be automated using
Smartmatic. It is frequently used since it requires no human intervention,
especially during the pandemic era. Without assistance from election
personnel, voters can cast ballots manually and electronically.

• Smartmatic Company is acknowledged by the Independent observers

Observers from the European Union agreed that the traceability solution
provided by Smartmatic was the best election process system worldwide.
Numerous other independent organizations have confirmed the work of the
electoral commissioners with whom they have collaborated.

• Smartmatic emphasize auditability

The technology and services are all based on the idea that all political parties
will scrutinize the election process at all stages. The system turns each voter
into a verification. Examiners create their own polling forms to confirm their
voting and match the electronic count. In this way, we can experience
auditability through their machines.

• Smartmatic high capability

The technology and services they provide hold a lot of countries. The
company has a lot of countries as their customers. Proving that many
countries trust their work and efficiency to handle an election. When it comes
to offices, they have different offices all over the world that’s making it easier
for them to reach out and compete very well in the market.

F. Website: visit the company’s website and comment on the general interface
and content
 Smartmatic is the global leader in applied cybersecurity technologies for elections
and government systems. The GTRI model is a thorough resource for preserving
and assessing election integrity. Most people prefer to just consider voting machines
when thinking about election cybersecurity. But that's only one component of the
ecosystem around election security. Technology is only as safe as the users,
processes, and environment it is utilized in. Because of this, we consider
procedures, rules, and your current infrastructure in addition to product design and
encryption. This guarantees flawless security, compatibility, and ideal performance.

According to the website’s promotions, 90% of the Filipino citizens move forward in
pursuing the country’s elections via the voting system powered by Smartmatic. It has
also been named as a “successful support for successful elections.” Given the rising
number of not just Filipino voters in the country but also the voting systems being
upheld in other countries, Smartmatic has marcotted its name with excellence in
their service to the elections that are being conducted. London has hailed
Smartmatic for having fast e-counting services and its accuracy has also been
praised. Almost most countries around the world rely on Smartmatic for accurate and
immeasurable quality for a better and safer election process.

G. References

Smartmatic.com (n.d.)
https://www.smartmatic.com/elections/election-continuity/

Scytl: Revenue, Competitors, Alternatives (n.d.)

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https://www.smartmatic.com/case-studies/article/why-choose-smartmatic/
https://www.smartmatic.com/elections/project-management-services/
https://www.smartmatic.com/cybersecurity/

Scytl: Revenue, Competitors, Alternatives. (n.d.). Retrieved October 5, 2022, from

https://growjo.com/company/Scytl

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https://www.smartmatic.com/elections/project-management-services/

Smartmatic. (n.d.). Ensure election continuity with our risk-mitigation portfolio.

Election Continuity. https://www.smartmatic.com/elections/election-continuity/
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Company assignment and order of presentation:

NETFLIX Group1
www.netflix.com
STARBUCKS Group2
www.starbucks.com
TESLA Group3
www.tesla.com
SAP Group 4
www.sap.com
SMARTMATIC Group 5
www.smartmatic.com