Bull Evidian and Oracle strengthen partnership
on Identity and Access Management
Paris, Redwood,
January
12, 2005 -
Bull Evidian, a leading secure management software vendor announced today that it is partnering with Oracle to provide enhanced solutions and additional benefits to their clients in the growing Identity and Access Management (IAM) market.
As a Certified Partner in the Oracle® PartnerNetwork and recognized Identity and Access Management leader, Bull Evidian has developed compatible solutions that extend Oracle Identity Management (OIM) capabilities - Oracle's enterprise identity infrastructure.
By integrating with Oracle Internet Directory (OID), one of the main components of OIM, Bull Evidian's AccessMaster provides additional capabilities in the areas of Authentication (Single Sign-On) and User life-cycle management (User Provisioning).
OIM provides native Single Sign-On (SSO) to the Web applications it enables. Relying on OID as an authoritative source - along with other LDAP-accessible directories - Evidian's AccessMaster will provide Secure Single Sign-On to all enterprise applications, including enterprise client-server, legacy applications, Java-enabled and Citrix-published applications. Transparent, this secure SSO does not require any modification of the target application. AccessMaster's administration console offers a central point for user identity management, as well as in other target applications and resources.
The partnership brings the following benefits to customers:
- Native integration with OID, enabling companies to leverage their existing Oracle user repository as an enterprise authoritative source for Identity Management.
- Secure SSO to any type of application.
- Central user administration including user provisioning for OID-enabled and other applications.
"By supporting OID, Bull Evidian adds one of the most scalable and secure User ID sources to its list of supported LDAP accessible directories. We are pleased to capitalize on our long-lasting partnership with Oracle by developing solutions that tightly integrate the access control and SSO requirements of Oracle applications in our leading IAM modular suite." says Philippe Pradat, Bull Evidian's Product Group Director.
"We welcome Bull Evidian as a provider of an enterprise secure SSO and IAM solution able to complement our security solutions. We worked with Bull Evidian to help them certify their product with Oracle and we provided technical assistance and resources to achieve integration in the most efficient manner. Evidian through their flagship product AccessMaster brings global user administration from a unique console including user provisioning for OID-enabled and other applications." says John Gawkowski, Vice President, Business Development for Server Technologies at Oracle Corp.
About Bull
Bull designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies. In this respect, Bull's range of NovaScale servers combines the openness of standards with the robustness of mainframes. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimise their IT infrastructure and their applications.
Bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication, utilities and manufacturing sectors. Capitalising on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to efficiently advise and to accompany its customers. Its distribution network spreads to over 100 countries world-wide.
Bull's mission is to provide to targeted customers seamless and open IT solutions, going from server design and manufacturing for secure networked infrastructures, to applications design, integration and outsourcing. Bull Evidian is Bull's secure management software unit. Bull Evidian is a leading international player in security and service management software, in particular with its AccessMaster and OpenMaster software suites.
About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
The Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 13,800 companies that deliver innovative enterprise software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's Internet economy. Oracle partners are able to offer customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company. Partners who are able to demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle qualify for the Oracle Certified Partner level. These partners receive a higher level of service, support, training and certification from Oracle
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