SailPoint Releases Next Generation Provisioning Solution
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Posted on March 22, 2010 at 6:07:01 AM
SailPoint Releases Next Generation Provisioning Solution
Company Builds on Its Identity Governance Base and Provisioning Heritage to Streamline Implementations and Reduce Costs
AUSTIN, Texas, March 22 -- Global 500 companies have invested millions of dollars on IT provisioning implementations, yet most still cannot provide prompt access to resources for new employees, immediate removal of access for terminated workers, or rapid processing for all the changes as employees move around the organization. To address that problem, SailPoint has added end-to-end provisioning capabilities to its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint IdentityIQ(TM), and can now automate the entire user access request and fulfillment process. Building on its early innovations in identity governance and leveraging its founders' provisioning heritage at Waveset Technologies, SailPoint's governance-based provisioning solution is designed to simplify implementations, reduce costs and deliver immediate business value.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090218/SAILPOINTLOGO)
"Companies struggle today with provisioning because the technology is expensive, overly complex and difficult to implement," said Mark McClain, CEO and cofounder of SailPoint. "The cost and complexity of implementing provisioning has limited the extent of its deployment in most organizations to a small minority of total applications. By implementing provisioning on an identity governance foundation, companies will benefit from shorter implementation times and broader application coverage. At the same time, it will be much easier to involve business users in all aspects of compliance and governance processes associated with user access control."
SailPoint's new approach to provisioning begins with a governance layer, which provides an enterprise-wide view into a company's identity data, applies intelligent, risk-aware controls to user access based on corporate policies, and then automates access request fulfillment across the organization through the most efficient processes available. This offers customers:
-- Simplified deployments. SailPoint's approach begins with the mining
and modeling of all necessary information about users, access
privileges, roles and policy into a single governance platform,
enabling organizations to automate access request and provisioning
processes without extensive workflow and custom coding. This reduces
custom coding requirements by 200-300 percent.
-- Lower deployment costs. SailPoint provides an open and flexible
approach to the "last mile" of provisioning - the connector layer
where changes are executed on IT resources - by supporting multiple
techniques and processes for making changes to resources. This
eliminates the hundreds of thousands of dollars organizations
typically spend on "last mile" integrations. It also allows customers
to immediately focus their identity management efforts where the
highest value exists: at the business process and governance layer to
ensure consistent, enterprise-wide compliance with internal and
external security mandates.
-- Business and IT alignment. SailPoint provides the first user interface
designed specifically for business users to request access and manage
user lifecycle events. Traditional provisioning tools were designed
for use by IT administrators and were too cryptic and technical for
business users. With its business-friendly user interfaces, SailPoint
makes it easy to involve business users in all identity management
processes, such as access requests, change approvals, access
certifications and role lifecycle management.
"Having a foundational identity and access governance platform in place and then expanding it into provisioning makes a lot of sense for companies," said Ian Glazer, senior analyst at Burton Group (acquired by Gartner). "Building a complete view of entitlements and access privileges is step one. The next step is to leverage role management and create a centralized policy that dictates who should have access to those resources. Companies then have the benefit of leveraging that model, built for compliance, across its provisioning processes."
SailPoint's new provisioning solution, IdentityIQ Lifecycle Manager, will be available April 30 and provides the following key capabilities:
-- The industry's first access request interface designed specifically
for business users, which provides a "shopping cart" styled interface
for convenient and intuitive selection of roles and entitlements.
-- Full lifecycle event management that integrates with authoritative
sources, such as HR systems and corporate directories, to identify
changes in employment status, automatically trigger the appropriate
changes in IdentityIQ, and generate the appropriate provisioning
requests to ensure closed-loop access fulfillment.
-- A provisioning broker that enables organizations to centralize policy
and controls in a governance layer above provisioning, while
cost-effectively orchestrating changes to target resources using
3rd-party provisioning solutions, help desk solutions, emails sent to
a system administrator or SailPoint's own Provisioning Engine, which
includes more than 50 out-of-the-box read/write connectors and a
custom connector toolkit for deploying to custom applications.
About SailPoint
SailPoint's award-winning identity governance software, SailPoint IdentityIQ, helps organizations manage user access to critical systems and data, automate costly IT provisioning processes, streamline compliance efforts and reduce the risks of fraud, corporate data loss or theft and failed audits. SailPoint's marquee customer list includes: seven top tier global banks; two of the world's biggest property and casualty insurers; the largest global telecommunications provider; three of the top four U.S. managed healthcare providers; and two of the largest healthcare and biotechnology manufacturers in the world. Privately-held SailPoint is based in Austin, Texas.
SailPoint, the SailPoint logo, IdentityIQ, and all techniques are trademarks or registered trademarks of SailPoint Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other products or services are trademarks of their respective companies.
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Source: SailPoint
CONTACT: Kari Hanson of SailPoint Technologies, Inc., +1-978-373-4003,
kari.hanson@sailpoint.com; or Michelle Dillon of Beaupre & Co. Public
Relations, +1-603-559-5835, mdillon@beaupre.com, for SailPoint Technologies,
Inc.
Web Site: http://www.sailpoint.com/
Company Builds on Its Identity Governance Base and Provisioning Heritage to Streamline Implementations and Reduce Costs
AUSTIN, Texas, March 22 -- Global 500 companies have invested millions of dollars on IT provisioning implementations, yet most still cannot provide prompt access to resources for new employees, immediate removal of access for terminated workers, or rapid processing for all the changes as employees move around the organization. To address that problem, SailPoint has added end-to-end provisioning capabilities to its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint IdentityIQ(TM), and can now automate the entire user access request and fulfillment process. Building on its early innovations in identity governance and leveraging its founders' provisioning heritage at Waveset Technologies, SailPoint's governance-based provisioning solution is designed to simplify implementations, reduce costs and deliver immediate business value.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090218/SAILPOINTLOGO)
"Companies struggle today with provisioning because the technology is expensive, overly complex and difficult to implement," said Mark McClain, CEO and cofounder of SailPoint. "The cost and complexity of implementing provisioning has limited the extent of its deployment in most organizations to a small minority of total applications. By implementing provisioning on an identity governance foundation, companies will benefit from shorter implementation times and broader application coverage. At the same time, it will be much easier to involve business users in all aspects of compliance and governance processes associated with user access control."
SailPoint's new approach to provisioning begins with a governance layer, which provides an enterprise-wide view into a company's identity data, applies intelligent, risk-aware controls to user access based on corporate policies, and then automates access request fulfillment across the organization through the most efficient processes available. This offers customers:
-- Simplified deployments. SailPoint's approach begins with the mining
and modeling of all necessary information about users, access
privileges, roles and policy into a single governance platform,
enabling organizations to automate access request and provisioning
processes without extensive workflow and custom coding. This reduces
custom coding requirements by 200-300 percent.
-- Lower deployment costs. SailPoint provides an open and flexible
approach to the "last mile" of provisioning - the connector layer
where changes are executed on IT resources - by supporting multiple
techniques and processes for making changes to resources. This
eliminates the hundreds of thousands of dollars organizations
typically spend on "last mile" integrations. It also allows customers
to immediately focus their identity management efforts where the
highest value exists: at the business process and governance layer to
ensure consistent, enterprise-wide compliance with internal and
external security mandates.
-- Business and IT alignment. SailPoint provides the first user interface
designed specifically for business users to request access and manage
user lifecycle events. Traditional provisioning tools were designed
for use by IT administrators and were too cryptic and technical for
business users. With its business-friendly user interfaces, SailPoint
makes it easy to involve business users in all identity management
processes, such as access requests, change approvals, access
certifications and role lifecycle management.
"Having a foundational identity and access governance platform in place and then expanding it into provisioning makes a lot of sense for companies," said Ian Glazer, senior analyst at Burton Group (acquired by Gartner). "Building a complete view of entitlements and access privileges is step one. The next step is to leverage role management and create a centralized policy that dictates who should have access to those resources. Companies then have the benefit of leveraging that model, built for compliance, across its provisioning processes."
SailPoint's new provisioning solution, IdentityIQ Lifecycle Manager, will be available April 30 and provides the following key capabilities:
-- The industry's first access request interface designed specifically
for business users, which provides a "shopping cart" styled interface
for convenient and intuitive selection of roles and entitlements.
-- Full lifecycle event management that integrates with authoritative
sources, such as HR systems and corporate directories, to identify
changes in employment status, automatically trigger the appropriate
changes in IdentityIQ, and generate the appropriate provisioning
requests to ensure closed-loop access fulfillment.
-- A provisioning broker that enables organizations to centralize policy
and controls in a governance layer above provisioning, while
cost-effectively orchestrating changes to target resources using
3rd-party provisioning solutions, help desk solutions, emails sent to
a system administrator or SailPoint's own Provisioning Engine, which
includes more than 50 out-of-the-box read/write connectors and a
custom connector toolkit for deploying to custom applications.
About SailPoint
SailPoint's award-winning identity governance software, SailPoint IdentityIQ, helps organizations manage user access to critical systems and data, automate costly IT provisioning processes, streamline compliance efforts and reduce the risks of fraud, corporate data loss or theft and failed audits. SailPoint's marquee customer list includes: seven top tier global banks; two of the world's biggest property and casualty insurers; the largest global telecommunications provider; three of the top four U.S. managed healthcare providers; and two of the largest healthcare and biotechnology manufacturers in the world. Privately-held SailPoint is based in Austin, Texas.
SailPoint, the SailPoint logo, IdentityIQ, and all techniques are trademarks or registered trademarks of SailPoint Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other products or services are trademarks of their respective companies.
Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090218/SAILPOINTLOGO
AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org/
PRN Photo Desk photodesk@prnewswire.com
Source: SailPoint
CONTACT: Kari Hanson of SailPoint Technologies, Inc., +1-978-373-4003,
kari.hanson@sailpoint.com; or Michelle Dillon of Beaupre & Co. Public
Relations, +1-603-559-5835, mdillon@beaupre.com, for SailPoint Technologies,
Inc.
Web Site: http://www.sailpoint.com/