Introducing Acre Access Control March Release

Advancing identity automation, badge management, and operational scale

Security environments continue to expand in both scope and complexity.

Today’s access control platforms must manage people, credentials, badge programs, integrations, and security policies across multiple systems. As organizations grow, the challenge is not simply adding new capabilities. It is ensuring those capabilities work together in a way that keeps operations efficient and security teams in control.

Acre Access Control's March release focuses on strengthening that operational alignment.

This release introduces identity automation, new badge management capabilities, scalable administrative tools, and deeper integration with video surveillance environments. The result is a more connected and efficient access control platform designed to support real-world security operations.

Identity Automation with SCIM Provisioning

Managing user identities across multiple systems often creates operational delays and administrative overhead.

This release introduces a SCIM-based provisioning capability, allowing identity providers to automatically create, update, and deactivate users within Acre Access Control.

Using the industry-standard SCIM 2.0 protocol, identity systems can synchronize user changes directly into AAC. When identity information changes within the organization’s identity provider, those updates can be reflected automatically in the access control platform.  

This approach helps organizations:

• Keep physical access aligned with identity lifecycle changes

• Reduce manual account management

• Accelerate employee onboarding and offboarding

• Maintain stronger identity governance across systems

For organizations building unified identity strategies, this capability helps connect physical security with enterprise identity management.

AI-Powered Badge Design

Badge design has traditionally required specialized tools or manual design processes.

This March release version introduces the AI Badge Designer, a conversational design tool that allows administrators to create badge templates using natural language instructions.

Instead of building layouts manually, users can describe their badge design requirements and instantly generate CR80-compliant badge templates with dynamic data placeholders for printing.  

This capability helps organizations:

• Accelerate badge template creation

• Maintain consistent badge branding across sites

• Reduce reliance on external design tools

• Enable non-technical users to manage badge design workflows

The result is a faster, more flexible approach to badge program management.

Managing People at Scale

As organizations grow, managing large populations of users can quickly become a time-consuming process.

This release introduces several tools designed to streamline these administrative workflows.

1. Bulk Person Imports

Administrators can now import large groups of users using structured CSV templates generated directly within the platform. Built-in validation ensures that data meets system requirements before records are created.  

This capability allows teams to onboard hundreds or thousands of users quickly using existing HR data exports.

2. Bulk People Actions

Administrators can also apply updates across multiple users simultaneously. Actions such as credential updates, mobile badge issuance, anti-passback resets, and card expiry updates can now be performed in bulk.  

These workflows reduce repetitive tasks and allow administrators to manage user populations more efficiently.

Expanded Visibility into Badge Issuance

Badge issuance plays a critical role in maintaining security across facilities.

This AAC release introduces a Badge Printing Audit Log that provides detailed visibility into badge printing activity across AAC clients.

The system records badge printing attempts, successful prints, and failed print events, along with information about the user, credential, and time of the event.  

This visibility supports:

• Stronger badge program oversight

• Compliance reporting and investigations

• Detection of unusual printing activity

By improving transparency into badge operations, organizations gain greater confidence in how credentials are issued and managed.

Deeper Integration with Video Security

Access control and video surveillance are often managed separately, which can slow incident response and investigations. March release strengthens the Milestone XProtect integration, allowing operators to monitor access control events and initiate door commands directly from the video management environment.

The integration supports events and commands from Acre Smart Controllers, Mercury hardware, and ASSA ABLOY DSR wireless locks, helping bring access activity and video context together for faster investigations and more effective response.

This release also introduces a 64-bit Milestone XProtect plugin for the AAC Classic Client, enabling full compatibility with modern 64-bit environments and improving stability for larger deployments. This ensures customers operating high-volume systems can continue to run integrated video and access workflows with improved performance and reliability.

Built for Real-World Security Operations

This latest Acre Access Control release introduces a range of improvements that help organizations manage identity, credentials, and security workflows more efficiently.

From automated identity provisioning to AI-driven badge design and scalable user management, these updates strengthen the operational foundation of the AAC platform.

As security environments continue to evolve, Acre remains focused on delivering solutions that simplify complexity, strengthen visibility, and help organizations move their security operations forward with confidence.

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