Feenics, Inc., Ottawa, Can., has achieved elite Platinum Partner Status for Mercury Security, Long Beach, Calif., indicative of the company?s commitment to non-proprietary hardware cloud-computing environments. Authentic Mercury Security is one of the most widely used and specified access control hardware brands in the world.

Feenics is the originator of the award-winning Keep by Feenics™ Access Control as a Service (ACaaS) cloud-hosted security management solution (SMS). The partnership lends further credibility to Keep SMS and integration with Authentic Mercury hardware.

“We are very excited to welcome Feenics as a Platinum Partner for the Authentic Mercury platform,” said Matt Barnette, President of Mercury Security. “The partnership has experienced phenomenal growth since its inception and validates the growing trend in the industry to open, cloud-based access control solutions.?

Paul DiPeso, Executive Vice President of Feenics, said ?achieving Platinum Partner status with Mercury is a validation of our strategy of teaming with the best field hardware provider in the industry in Mercury, while Feenics focuses solely on developing the most robust, cloud-based, access control solution, to meet the growing needs of the end-user market. The numbers don?t lie with our rapid growth and we are fortunate to have a tremendous partner in Mercury. Their support has been second to none.?