With Upstream Provisioning, Bull Evidian simplifies the implementation of enterprise-wide identity directories
Evidian's Upstream Provisioning facilitates the synchronization of multiple sources and different identity formats, thus offering a simple, robust and innovative alternative to meta-directories
Paris,
November
14, 2006 -
Bull Evidian, the European leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM), today announces "Upstream Provisioning", a new component of its IAM software suite.
With "Upstream Provisioning", Bull Evidian responds to the needs of businesses that want to create a directory of reliable identities simply and quickly. The new component is designed to facilitate the creation, integration or migration of corporate directories: for example as a result of a merger or acquisition, or a re-organization of decentralized business entities.
The construction of an enterprise-wide identity directory is at the core of effective identity and access management (IAM). It also enables customers to build identity databases, for example when creating a white pages service, or for identity management or company Single-Sign-On projects.
"Today, unifying identity and access management is a central preoccupation for numerous businesses that have implemented diverse approaches to identity management, 'in silos' or by type of application, over the years," explains Hassan Maad, Bull Evidian's Managing Director. "This dispersal of information results in a loss of productivity, an increase in the number of security risks, and a proliferation of unreliable identity sources. Upstream Provisioning enables these systems to be synchronized and unified, without the need to implement costly meta-directories."
Upstream Provisioning: a simple and effective solution
"Upstream Provisioning" complements Bull Evidian's identity provisioning software solutions:'Identity Manager' and 'Provisioning Manager'. The solution offers three major advantages:
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A global approach to the creation of identity directories. Upstream Provisioning" supports all the main identity sources on the market: not only LDAP directories (MS Active Directory or ADAM, Sun JS Directory Server, Novell e-Directory, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, OpenLDAP or any other directory LDAP V3), but also SQL databases (Oracle, Informix, Sybase, MS-SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, ODBC, etc.), Lotus Notes and Exchange directories and CVS or LDAIF flat files, etc.
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An easy-to-install solution with no need to deploy agents. Simply installing "Upstream Provisioning" on a server is all that's needed to implement the solution. No additional deployment of agents is required.
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A powerful solution. "Upstream Provisioning" powerful rules engine enables to create, link, delete or synchronize identities, between a selected reference directory and existing identity sources and formats. A configurator with a straightforward XML interface allows the mapping and synchronization rules to be easily defined. This means there is no need to commit to the costly development programs usually associated with meta-directories.
For further information, download the white paper: Upstream and directory identity provisioning. This white paper describes the basic principles for constructing a consolidated identity directory: http://www.evidian.com/p/am.php?d=upprov&c=pruspen
Pricing and availability
"Upstream Provisioning" is available. For 1,000 work stations, "Upstream Provisioning" is priced at €12.5 per user.
About Bull Evidian
Bull Evidian, a subsidiary of Group Bull, is the European leader and one of the main vendors worldwide in Identity & Access Management (IAM) software. Bull Evidian software solutions include enterprise SSO, user provisioning, approval workflow, identity federation and access control security solutions for SOA and web services. Bull Evidian software helps numerous European, US and Asian organization to increase their agility, security and regulation compliance, and to reduce their costs. Bull Evidian's outstanding technology has been recognized by numerous international awards. It is at use at hundreds of large enterprise and government organizations such as EADS, T-Com, UBS, Telecom Italia, Vodafone, Swisslife, Dexia, Nissan, Sanofi-Aventis and Deutsche Post. More information: www.evidian.com
About Bull, Architect of an Open World
As one of the leading European IT companies, Bull delivers open, flexible and secure information systems. The group helps public and private sector customers transform their information systems, applying its know-how and expertise in three main areas:
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Capitalizing on its extensive mainframe experience, Bull designs and produces robust, innovative and open servers, based on industry-standard technologies;
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Building on its alliances with leading ISVs, Bull develops and implements flexible and interoperable application infrastructures which give business processes the freedom to evolve;
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Bringing together recognized expertise in end-to-end IT security, Bull secures data and exchanges that are so critical in preserving customers' business integrity.
Bull has a particularly strong presence in the public, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing and defense sectors. Its distribution network and business partners cover more than 60 countries worldwide.
For more information visit: http://www.bull.com
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