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 through SCIM provisioning, expanded visibility into badge issuance, scalable administrative tools, and enhancements to existing integrations. The result is a platform that gives you greater control over users, credentials, and system activity as your environment scales.

Identity Automation with SCIM Provisioning

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

This release adds a SCIM-based provisioning capability through a Gallery package, 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.

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.

Operational Control and Flexibility

This release introduces new capabilities that improve how access is managed across your environment.

• ‍Scheduled Temporary Reader Modes apply temporary access configurations with improved scheduling, recurrence, and usability across clients.
• ‍Bulk Controller Commands execute commands across multiple controllers at once to maintain consistency across sites.

Improved Visibility Across the System

This release makes it easier to access and understand system activity across your environment.

Per-object Event History allows you to view detailed event history directly from any object, including people, doors, and controllers. This allows teams to investigate activity in context without relying only on live events.

By reducing the need to navigate across multiple views, teams can respond faster and maintain clearer oversight as systems scale.

Expanded Visibility into Badge Issuance

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

This 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.

Expanded Video Integration Capabilities

Access control and video surveillance are often managed separately, which can slow incident response and investigations. This release expands 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 to support investigations and 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.

Expanded Integration Ecosystem

Access control does not operate in isolation. As environments grow, systems need to work together to give teams a complete and consistent view of operations.

This release expands AAC’s integration ecosystem, helping bring more systems into alignment without adding complexity.

Traka Key Management Integration
AAC now integrates with Traka key management systems, extending visibility beyond doors and credentials to include physical key usage.

By connecting key activity with access control workflows, teams can:

• Track both digital and physical access within a single operational view
• Improve accountability for shared or high-security keys
• Strengthen audit and compliance processes across facilities

This integration helps close visibility gaps that often exist between systems, giving security teams a more complete understanding of how access is managed across their environment.

Platform Improvements

Behind the scenes, this release delivers a range of improvements that strengthen performance, stability, and day-to-day usability across AAC.

These updates are designed to reduce friction in daily operations and ensure the platform continues to perform reliably as environments scale.

Key improvements include:

• More consistent permissions behavior across the platform
• Improved event publishing performance
• Enhanced badge printing reliability
• Better synchronization between licensing components
• Stability improvements across web, desktop, and classic clients

While less visible than new features, these updates play a critical role in maintaining a system that is dependable, responsive, and easier to operate over time.

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 scalable user management and improved system visibility, 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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