Networks Unlimited and Evidian, the European leader in identity and access management, announced today that Gartner has placed it in the Leaders quadrant in the new, 2008 "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Single Sign-on".
Released on 18 September 2008, Gartner's report analyses the enterprise single-sign-on (ESSO) market and evaluates 12 solutions. Quadrant positions are based on each vendor's ability to execute and completeness of vision.
According to Gartner: "Leaders in ESSO market show a consistent capability to gain new customers in broad industries and geographies; and at the higher end of the quadrant, they have very good to excellent customer references, products that easily integrate with target systems; and leaders demonstrate a commitment to rapidly provide the product updates that their customers want."
"Increasingly, organisations use enterprise single sign-on as a strategic piece of their identity and access management system. For them, choosing a high-quality SSO offer is all the more critical" said Hassan Maad, COO of Evidian. "As a result, our customers require that we provide them with advanced enterprise solutions. I view our placement in the Leaders quadrant by Gartner as a direct consequence of our proven ability to deliver robust and secure SSO in large scale corporate environments."
Drawing on years of real-world experience and innovation, Evidian's Enterprise SSO is a best-of-breed software solution that offers unique mobility and data privacy features. Evidian's solution goes beyond traditional SSO tools by integrating with corporate business policies. It provides role-based management functions that accelerate time to value and ensure user security and productivity.
Evidian's Enterprise SSO can be deployed either as a standalone function, or jointly with other features of Evidian IAM Suite, such as policy management, provisioning and strong access control. It can also be used together with an identity management solution on the market. As a result, organisations can leverage SSO to get the most value out of their exisiting identity management investment.
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Gartner's Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to the research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Evidian
Evidian, a subsidiary of Groupe Bull, is the European leader and one of the main vendors worldwide of identity and access management (IAM) software. Evidian solutions include IAM Suite 8, SafeKit for high availability and OpenMaster for systems and applications service management. Evidian has offices and partners within EMEA, Asia and the Americas. Evidian software helps more that 600 organizations worldwide to increase their agility, security and regulation compliance, while reducing their costs.
Networks Unlimited
Networks Unlimited is a Value Added Distributor (VAD) of security solutions, dedicated to offering only the best-of-breed products. With a team of certified technicians and skilled sales staff, we differentiate ourselves by delivering the key to networking communications. In an increasingly competitive, evolving environment, we remain one step ahead by providing tangible results for network management, productivity and security solutions. Our strategy towards becoming the leading VAD for sub-Saharan Africa involves total customer satisfaction through fast and efficient product and service delivery, easy support access, prompt dispatching of information and minimal purchasing bureaucracy.
For more information regarding Evidian, contact Wayne Donnelly the appointed Evidian Channel Development Manager on 011 304 6200 alternatively e-mail him at wayned@nu.co.za