20 oktober 2004
NOG MEER FLEXIBILITEIT IN IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
Q&R presenteert, als Benelux partner, met trots Netegrity’s IdentityMinder 6.0.
Netegrity - wereldmarktleider op het gebied van Identity en Access Management - heeft IdentityMinder 6.0 gelanceerd.
Met IdentityMinder Web Edition 6.0 is de flexibiliteit en gebruikersvriendelijkheid om de toegangsrechten tot applicaties te beheren verder toegenomen. Deze laatste versie kan nu naast LDAP omgevingen ook de inhoud van relationele databases beheren, heeft een nieuwe web service interface en een nog flexibeler delegatie model. IdentityMinder is een kernonderdeel van de volledig geïntegreerde Identity Management oplossing van Netegrity die bestaat uit gebruikersbeheer, provisioning, access management en web services beveiliging.
IdentityMinder is dé oplossing voor on-line gebruikersbeheer van dealers, klanten, medewerkers en andere gebruikers, en biedt volledige ondersteuning voor het self-service concept binnen Intranet- of Extranet-oplossingen. IdentityMinder helpt organisaties de beveiliging te verbeteren, operationele kosten te verlagen en de gebruikerstevredenheid te verhogen.
Q&R EN NETEGRITY
Q&R, 175 man sterk, beschikt over brede kennis en expertise op het gebied van IT om beveiligingsoplossingen effectief, inclusief alle infrastructurele aspecten, te realiseren. Door de jarenlange ervaring is inmiddels een aansprekende referentielijst opgebouwd op het gebied van beveiliging en Identity Management.
Bijlage: Annoncering van Netegrity
Voor meer informatie kunt u contact opnemen met John van Lopik, j.vanlopik@qenr.nl of op telefoonnummer 0343-439343.
Meer informatie over Q&R en Netegrity kunt u vinden op de websites: www.qenr.nl en www.netegrity.com
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Bijlage: persbericht “Q&R presenteert IdentityMinder 6.0 van Netegrity”, d.d. 20 oktober 2004
Netegrity Announces IdentityMinder 6.0
Provides New Flexibility for Managing Identities of Growing Populations of Customers and Partners
Waltham, MA - 10/18/2004
Netegrity, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETE), a leading provider of identity and access management solutions, today announced the next major release of its Netegrity® IdentityMinder® solution. IdentityMinder Web Edition 6.0 provides enhanced flexibility, efficiency, and ease-of-use for managing user identities across business applications. This latest edition of IdentityMinder features support for relational databases, a new Web service interface, and further flexibility for user management. IdentityMinder is a key component of Netegrity’s comprehensive identity and access management solution, which includes user management, provisioning, access management, and Web services security capabilities.
Reynolds and Reynolds, a provider of software solutions and services that helps automotive retailers manage their operations and improve profitability, is streamlining customer support through the use of Netegrity IdentityMinder 5.6.
“Web-based customer services play a major role in our business,” said Steve Kesler, Director of Information Security for Reynolds and Reynolds. “Netegrity IdentityMinder, overall, provides Reynolds with a flexible solution for managing the identities of thousands of employees within our dealership customer base. With Netegrity’s technology, we’ve been able to cost-effectively offer those customers the ability to assign and manage secure single sign-on access to business applications within our Myreyrey.com portal.”
IdentityMinder enables organizations to improve overall security, reduce operational costs, and increase user satisfaction and productivity for Web-delivered applications. The new features of IdentityMinder 6.0 further streamline the process of managing users and provide enhanced flexibility to meet the needs of a wide range of business environments. New features in IdentityMinder Web Edition 6.0 include:
- Relational Database Support
IdentityMinder now delivers user management services such as self-service administration, workflow, delegation, auditing, and role definitions for organizations that use relational databases as their user stores. In addition to relational databases, IdentityMinder continues to support the administration of users in LDAP. This reinforces Netegrity’s mission of providing a flexible solution that supports a broad range of IT infrastructures and enables organizations to better leverage their existing IT investments.
- Web Service Interface
IdentityMinder’s new Web service interface and support of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) standard allows organizations to expose identity management tasks as Web services. This enables organizations to integrate user management tasks, such as create/modify/delete users, self-service, and forgotten password capabilities, into the organization’s portal or expose them externally to partners and customers, while still leveraging the automated user administration services of IdentityMinder. This reduces development costs for the organization and provides a more consistent user experience.
- Enhanced User Management Flexibility
IdentityMinder automates the management of user identities, including group & organization memberships, role assignments, and profile attributes. With IdentityMinder 6.0 Netegrity has further streamlined the management of users with:
- More flexible role model – Makes implementing roles easier by simplifying the creation, management, and delegation of roles.
- Support for dynamic groups – Enables access to applications to be dynamically determined based on group membership.
- Support for nested groups – Simplifies group management by capitalizing on hierarchical relationships in order to minimize the number of groups of users an administrator must manage.
- More intuitive user interface – Provides a simplified experience for business users as the interface is based on the role of the user and the tasks they are allowed to perform.
“As companies continue to expand their online initiatives, the number of external users, such as partners and customers, continues to grow exponentially, presenting significant user management challenges,” said Bill Bartow, vice president of engineering at Netegrity. “With IdentityMinder 6.0, Netegrity is taking identity administration to the next level by providing a solution that is not only flexible and robust enough to accommodate varying organization’s needs but is also intuitive enough to make it easy for non-IT personnel to administer users.”
Comprehensive Identity and Access Management
IdentityMinder is a key component of Netegrity’s comprehensive identity and access management solution, which enables organizations to manage the identities of users, provision their use of corporate resources, and control access to those resources. In conjunction with Netegrity IdentityMinder Web Edition, Netegrity’s provisioning component, IdentityMinder eProvision, extends Netegrity’s user administration services to non-Web based systems, such as enterprise applications, email & groupware, operating systems, and database systems—further widening the set of users and managed target systems that can be part of the centralized enterprise identity management system. Netegrity provides solutions that can be implemented modularly to solve immediate identity and access management problems, while simultaneously providing infrastructure that can be incrementally extended to provide an enterprise-wide shared security service.
Netegrity will be holding a two part Web seminar series which will feature speakers from Netegrity customers Reynolds & Reynolds and Sony Pictures as well as the Burton Group. During the seminars, which will be held on October 21st and 28th, the speakers will discuss business drivers, benefits, technical issues, adoption challenges, and best practices of deploying identity management solutions. To register, go to the events section of www.netegrity.com.
Availability
Netegrity IdentityMinder Web Edition 6.0 is expected to be available within 30 days.
About Netegrity
Netegrity, Inc. is a leading provider of security software solutions that securely manage identities and their access to enterprise information assets, letting business in while keeping risk out. Netegrity provides a comprehensive identity and access management product line for continuously evolving computing environments, including legacy, Web, and service-oriented architectures. Netegrity’s flexible, standards-based offerings are designed to increase security, reduce administrative costs, and enable revenue enhancement. Supported by a network of over 1200 trained integration consultants and over 300 technology partners, Netegrity solutions are licensed for more than 350 million users at over 850 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. For more information, visit www.netegrity.com.