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What industry analysts say about Evidian's identity and access management offer

Gartner,
MarketScope for Enterprise Single Sign-On Products,2006
"While there is clearly a trend of enterprises developing Web-enabled architectures and consolidated/reduced sign-on through directories, there is still a need to serve organizations that maintain and add to their heterogeneous target system environments. We see this trend lasting for at least another four years. Also, as password efficacy continues to wane and enterprises seek to strengthen password policy, the need to reduce users' password management burdens increases. ESSO tools help reduce this burden and provide a common integration point for strong authentication. The tools have matured and work well enough to accomplish enterprise objectives, and we believe that the market will continue to grow."
Evidian was rated "Positive" in this MarketScope report.
Disclaimer : The MarketScope is copyrighted June 8 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation 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 MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Ian Williams, Senior Analyst, Datamonitor
About Evidian’s IAM NOW > initiative:
"Identity Management has quickly become one of the cornerstones of an effective enterprise security architecture. Deploying an identity management infrastructure, however, can bring with it a number of challenges in terms of cost, complexity, interoperability concerns, timescales and so on. As a result, once organizations realize that they have a serious identity management problem, many also realize that putting it right may be complex and is a process that will not happen overnight. The effect of this is that some organizations are choosing to ignore the problem until there is a major reason to overhaul the overall IT infrastructure. The best way to realize more immediate benefits from identity management implementations and to address the most pressing concerns is to use a modular strategy that allows organizations to develop solutions within their own timescale. Bull Evidian’s IAM NOW > strategy looks to offer an immediate answer to key identity management priorities while ensuring the progressive deployment of a global, well-integrated IAM solution. The modularity and tight integration of its AccessMaster IAM suite gives it the ability to achieve this goal."

Gerry Gebel, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
About Evidian’s IAM NOW > initiative:
"An enterprise's use of digital identity is crucial to business operations, impacting bottom line profitability, ability to react to business changes, and customer relations. Therefore, enterprises are seeking a broad set of identity management capabilities, including authentication, authorization, and user management. Successful organizations develop a target architecture for identity management, then build a plan that implements new technology in stages."

Ant Allen, Senior Analyst, Gartner
About Evidian’s IAM NOW > initiative:
"Organizations in all industries are increasingly looking to manage user identities and access across multiple systems more efficiently and effectively, using a variety of IAM tools. Because of the complexities of this goal, we see significant interest in well-integrated single-vendor IAM suites with common identity repositories and administrative interfaces. Gartner recommends a phased IAM implementation where each phase focuses on the next most pressing issue, and modular IAM suites can fit well with this approach."

Graham Titterington, Principal Analyst, Ovum
About Evidian’s IAM NOW > initiative:
"Evidian builds on its European credentials and on its vendor independence. Currently two-thirds of its revenues are from identity and access management products, with the rest coming from telecoms service management products.
It has customers throughout the world, supported directly, by other arms of Groupe Bull, or by its network of 70 partners. It has an impressive list of clients, many with very large deployments, particularly in the telecoms sector, of Evidian's products, demonstrating that scalability is not a problem. It should be well placed to exploit the current high level of demand for IAM products."

Maxine Holt, Analyst, Butler Group
About Evidian’s IAM NOW > initiative:
"The modular approach of Evidian AccessMaster version 7.0 and its ease of use are positive aspects of the solution."

Chris Christiansen, Program Director, Internet Security Program, IDC
"Large organizations that want to leverage the Internet's enormous business potential will benefit from Evidian AccessMaster's global security management solution, which combines such diverse tasks as full certificate management, single sign-on, VPN, extranet applications and centralized user administration within a single security management framework that can scale to support a virtually unlimited number of users. […] AccessMaster software offers the extraordinary capability to provide single sign-on across back-end and web servers. We know of no other product that can bridge these two environments as effectively as AccessMaster."

Susan E. Aldrich, Patricia Seybold Group
"The ideal access management solution supports you with an integrated, broad product that is readily extended to embrace new security mechanisms and needs. Few companies enjoy this luxury because today's solutions don't quite match today's problems—with one exception. Evidian offers perhaps the broadest and strongest solution for managing access available today."

Andrew Efstathiou, Program Manager, E-Sourcing Strategies, Yankee Group
"With the new AccessMaster capabilities, Evidian delivers the first software suite that addresses all the security issues raised by a networked economy. Now user organizations can implement consistent security from their enterprise systems to the portal, all in a secure, consistent, usable and manageable way."

What specialized integrators say about Evidian’s Identity and Access Management NOW > initiative
Some of the numerous reactions received from integrator partners worldwide

Xavier Vincens, Security Manager, Ubizen-Cybertrust, Benelux
"Chief Security Officers require the best of both worlds: evolutive security solutions able to grow with their business and modular components, enabling focused, progressive implementation. Evidian's identity and access management solutions architecture provides a powerful answer to this need. From entry-level SSO to multi-domain access or identity management, AccessMaster Release 7 provides a modular answer that enables step-by-step, very pragmatic implementation, with rapid time to value at each step."

Xu Peng, Director, PAS, China
"The time for isolated, too narrowly focused "islands" of solutions has gone. Today, enterprises want to secure and manage their infrastructure and business processes comprehensively, from front to back office. The way Evidian offers a comprehensive and consistent identity and access management solution is unique on the market today. For the first time, it truly enables customers to deploy a fully consistent security policy across their organization, from web to legacy. To our knowledge, no other offer on the market today matches this capability so closely."

Andreas Sievert, IT Security Manager, Steria Mummert Consulting, Germany
"As information systems are increasingly becoming nerve centers, security is more and more essential to ensuring companies' survival. Dealing with complex issues in a risk-controlled environment requires rolling out end-to-end security solutions, where identity and access management tools have an important role. From single sign-on to authentication systems and provisioning, enterprises need comprehensive and well integrated IAM software to rely on. Evidian AccessMaster software is daily proving a good fit in many of our large projects. Release 7 and the IAM NOW > program promise to go even further."

Andrea Buzzi, IT Security Manager, VP Tech, Italy
"With Internet integration, enterprises need more and more to deploy global security policies that are interoperable between affiliates, suppliers, partners and even users and customers. Evidian's AccessMaster identity and access management suite provides a powerful answer to this requirement. Fully standard, it leverages PKI to favor interoperable security management across extended organizations. At last, complexity is mastered, while business users can benefit from enhanced trust and productivity within their whole business community."

Taijiro Yamazaki, Representative Director, NexantiS Corporation, Japan
"Today, identity and access management is becoming one of the core foundations for security infrastructures. New solutions are coming on stream almost weekly, but this is often leading to confusion because there are few solutions that can offer end-to-end management of heterogeneous infrastructures and business processes. Evidian's comprehensive AccessMaster V7 suite and IAM NOW > program are among the very few that can do it. Their capability to offer step-by-step, modular deployment also offers a particularly valuable approach."

Rodrigo Blanco, Security Services Manager, Bull, Spain
"Mergers and acquisitions, industry consolidations, and years of building siloed IT departments have resulted in heterogeneous islands of IT infrastructures in many of today's companies. This is a costly and inefficient proposition for leveraging information technologies. This context has a strong impact on security, and identity and access management in particular tends to be a major problem for most organizations. For building and optimizing infrastructures, enterprises need to streamline consistency. Evidian's AccessMaster IAM software suite and IAM NOW > program make it possible to answer this key enterprise need."

What industry analysts say about Evidian's Service Management software

Robert J. Rich, Executive Vice President, Yankee Group
"As enterprises and service providers alike rely increasingly on their infrastructures to deliver the business in the new 'e-conomy,' end-to-end service management capabilities and rapid problem resolution are critical. The combination of these capabilities in Evidian's latest OpenMaster for Telecom release, as well as its understanding and experience in the broader IT arena, position it as a supplier of choice for service providers looking to offer high value solutions to their customers."

Elisabeth Rainge, Program Manager, IDC
"E-business is all about managing service delivery and service quality in a fast- growing, heterogeneous environment. Evidian's OpenMaster, with its heritage rooted in the service provider and telco markets, has proven its expertise in these areas for large global implementations. The enhancements of OpenMaster address critical service level and business process issues faced by ASPs, ISPs and MSPs as well as by large enterprises racing to build and manage highly scalable bricks-to-clicks e-business infrastructures."

Dennis Drogseth, Vice President, Enterprise Management Associates
"OpenMaster's clear delineation of operational and business processes, with role-sensitive views, makes it a strong foundation for building an efficient e-infrastructure service assurance solution. OpenMaster also offers a flexible approach to establishing and enforcing policies across a wide range of management requirements with a breadth of built-in 'intelligence engines' that unite infrastructure and business requirements. As IT organizations, application and managed services providers continue to evolve towards business-centric e-enterprise management, Evidian's service level assurance approach will become increasingly important."

Richard L. Ptak, VP, Systems & Application Management, Hurwitz Group, Inc.
"To operate an effective e-business infrastructure, organizations need a comprehensive yet centrally controlled management view of both front-end and back-end resources and applications. This requires collecting data from potentially millions of diverse objects, and then processing them in a consistent manner to support critical business processes. Vendors such as Evidian with proven expertise in deploying highly interoperable intelligent agent technology, stand the best chance of helping customers implement cost-effective e-business solutions."

Marc Bouchard, Senior Analyst, Meta Group
"Evidian's competition has been managing one problem at a time and then trying to backward-integrate all those piece parts. Evidian's approach starts by creating a common foundation for enterprise service-level management and security policy enforcement."

Paul Bugala, Research Analyst, Network & Service Management, IDC
"Service assurance is both a customer retention tool and service differentiator. But its business promises can only be realized if service assurance software, such as Evidian OpenMaster for Telecom, brings network and customer-facing management under control. Meeting these objectives is important in a time when customer loyalty is becoming critical to service providers."




What the experts say Industry analysts Awards and recognition Evidian in the press	Evidian > News and events > Experts > Industry analysts What the experts say... What industry analysts say about Evidian's identity and access management offer Gartner, MarketScope for Enterprise Single Sign-On Products,2006 "While there is clearly a trend of enterprises developing Web-enabled architectures and consolidated/reduced sign-on through directories, there is still a need to serve organizations that maintain and add to their heterogeneous target system environments. We see this trend lasting for at least another four years. Also, as password efficacy continues to wane and enterprises seek to strengthen password policy, the need to reduce users' password management burdens increases. ESSO tools help reduce this burden and provide a common integration point for strong authentication. The tools have matured and work well enough to accomplish enterprise objectives, and we believe that the market will continue to grow." Evidian was rated "Positive" in this MarketScope report. Disclaimer : The MarketScope is copyrighted June 8 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation 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 MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Ian Williams, Senior Analyst, Datamonitor About Evidian’s IAM NOW > initiative: "Identity Management has quickly become one of the cornerstones of an effective enterprise security architecture. Deploying an identity management infrastructure, however, can bring with it a number of challenges in terms of cost, complexity, interoperability concerns, timescales and so on. As a result, once organizations realize that they have a serious identity management problem, many also realize that putting it right may be complex and is a process that will not happen overnight. The effect of this is that some organizations are choosing to ignore the problem until there is a major reason to overhaul the overall IT infrastructure. The best way to realize more immediate benefits from identity management implementations and to address the most pressing concerns is to use a modular strategy that allows organizations to develop solutions within their own timescale. Bull Evidian’s IAM NOW > strategy looks to offer an immediate answer to key identity management priorities while ensuring the progressive deployment of a global, well-integrated IAM solution. The modularity and tight integration of its AccessMaster IAM suite gives it the ability to achieve this goal." Gerry Gebel, Senior Analyst, Burton Group About Evidian’s IAM NOW > initiative: "An enterprise's use of digital identity is crucial to business operations, impacting bottom line profitability, ability to react to business changes, and customer relations. Therefore, enterprises are seeking a broad set of identity management capabilities, including authentication, authorization, and user management. Successful organizations develop a target architecture for identity management, then build a plan that implements new technology in stages." Ant Allen, Senior Analyst, Gartner About Evidian’s IAM NOW > initiative: "Organizations in all industries are increasingly looking to manage user identities and access across multiple systems more efficiently and effectively, using a variety of IAM tools. Because of the complexities of this goal, we see significant interest in well-integrated single-vendor IAM suites with common identity repositories and administrative interfaces. Gartner recommends a phased IAM implementation where each phase focuses on the next most pressing issue, and modular IAM suites can fit well with this approach." Graham Titterington, Principal Analyst, Ovum About Evidian’s IAM NOW > initiative: "Evidian builds on its European credentials and on its vendor independence. Currently two-thirds of its revenues are from identity and access management products, with the rest coming from telecoms service management products. It has customers throughout the world, supported directly, by other arms of Groupe Bull, or by its network of 70 partners. It has an impressive list of clients, many with very large deployments, particularly in the telecoms sector, of Evidian's products, demonstrating that scalability is not a problem. It should be well placed to exploit the current high level of demand for IAM products." Maxine Holt, Analyst, Butler Group About Evidian’s IAM NOW > initiative: "The modular approach of Evidian AccessMaster version 7.0 and its ease of use are positive aspects of the solution." Chris Christiansen, Program Director, Internet Security Program, IDC "Large organizations that want to leverage the Internet's enormous business potential will benefit from Evidian AccessMaster's global security management solution, which combines such diverse tasks as full certificate management, single sign-on, VPN, extranet applications and centralized user administration within a single security management framework that can scale to support a virtually unlimited number of users. […] AccessMaster software offers the extraordinary capability to provide single sign-on across back-end and web servers. We know of no other product that can bridge these two environments as effectively as AccessMaster." Susan E. Aldrich, Patricia Seybold Group "The ideal access management solution supports you with an integrated, broad product that is readily extended to embrace new security mechanisms and needs. Few companies enjoy this luxury because today's solutions don't quite match today's problems—with one exception. Evidian offers perhaps the broadest and strongest solution for managing access available today." Andrew Efstathiou, Program Manager, E-Sourcing Strategies, Yankee Group "With the new AccessMaster capabilities, Evidian delivers the first software suite that addresses all the security issues raised by a networked economy. Now user organizations can implement consistent security from their enterprise systems to the portal, all in a secure, consistent, usable and manageable way." What specialized integrators say about Evidian’s Identity and Access Management NOW > initiative Some of the numerous reactions received from integrator partners worldwide Xavier Vincens, Security Manager, Ubizen-Cybertrust, Benelux "Chief Security Officers require the best of both worlds: evolutive security solutions able to grow with their business and modular components, enabling focused, progressive implementation. Evidian's identity and access management solutions architecture provides a powerful answer to this need. From entry-level SSO to multi-domain access or identity management, AccessMaster Release 7 provides a modular answer that enables step-by-step, very pragmatic implementation, with rapid time to value at each step." Xu Peng, Director, PAS, China "The time for isolated, too narrowly focused "islands" of solutions has gone. Today, enterprises want to secure and manage their infrastructure and business processes comprehensively, from front to back office. The way Evidian offers a comprehensive and consistent identity and access management solution is unique on the market today. For the first time, it truly enables customers to deploy a fully consistent security policy across their organization, from web to legacy. To our knowledge, no other offer on the market today matches this capability so closely." Andreas Sievert, IT Security Manager, Steria Mummert Consulting, Germany "As information systems are increasingly becoming nerve centers, security is more and more essential to ensuring companies' survival. Dealing with complex issues in a risk-controlled environment requires rolling out end-to-end security solutions, where identity and access management tools have an important role. From single sign-on to authentication systems and provisioning, enterprises need comprehensive and well integrated IAM software to rely on. Evidian AccessMaster software is daily proving a good fit in many of our large projects. Release 7 and the IAM NOW > program promise to go even further." Andrea Buzzi, IT Security Manager, VP Tech, Italy "With Internet integration, enterprises need more and more to deploy global security policies that are interoperable between affiliates, suppliers, partners and even users and customers. Evidian's AccessMaster identity and access management suite provides a powerful answer to this requirement. Fully standard, it leverages PKI to favor interoperable security management across extended organizations. At last, complexity is mastered, while business users can benefit from enhanced trust and productivity within their whole business community." Taijiro Yamazaki, Representative Director, NexantiS Corporation, Japan "Today, identity and access management is becoming one of the core foundations for security infrastructures. New solutions are coming on stream almost weekly, but this is often leading to confusion because there are few solutions that can offer end-to-end management of heterogeneous infrastructures and business processes. Evidian's comprehensive AccessMaster V7 suite and IAM NOW > program are among the very few that can do it. Their capability to offer step-by-step, modular deployment also offers a particularly valuable approach." Rodrigo Blanco, Security Services Manager, Bull, Spain "Mergers and acquisitions, industry consolidations, and years of building siloed IT departments have resulted in heterogeneous islands of IT infrastructures in many of today's companies. This is a costly and inefficient proposition for leveraging information technologies. This context has a strong impact on security, and identity and access management in particular tends to be a major problem for most organizations. For building and optimizing infrastructures, enterprises need to streamline consistency. Evidian's AccessMaster IAM software suite and IAM NOW > program make it possible to answer this key enterprise need." What industry analysts say about Evidian's Service Management software Robert J. Rich, Executive Vice President, Yankee Group "As enterprises and service providers alike rely increasingly on their infrastructures to deliver the business in the new 'e-conomy,' end-to-end service management capabilities and rapid problem resolution are critical. The combination of these capabilities in Evidian's latest OpenMaster for Telecom release, as well as its understanding and experience in the broader IT arena, position it as a supplier of choice for service providers looking to offer high value solutions to their customers." Elisabeth Rainge, Program Manager, IDC "E-business is all about managing service delivery and service quality in a fast- growing, heterogeneous environment. Evidian's OpenMaster, with its heritage rooted in the service provider and telco markets, has proven its expertise in these areas for large global implementations. The enhancements of OpenMaster address critical service level and business process issues faced by ASPs, ISPs and MSPs as well as by large enterprises racing to build and manage highly scalable bricks-to-clicks e-business infrastructures." Dennis Drogseth, Vice President, Enterprise Management Associates "OpenMaster's clear delineation of operational and business processes, with role-sensitive views, makes it a strong foundation for building an efficient e-infrastructure service assurance solution. OpenMaster also offers a flexible approach to establishing and enforcing policies across a wide range of management requirements with a breadth of built-in 'intelligence engines' that unite infrastructure and business requirements. As IT organizations, application and managed services providers continue to evolve towards business-centric e-enterprise management, Evidian's service level assurance approach will become increasingly important." Richard L. Ptak, VP, Systems & Application Management, Hurwitz Group, Inc. "To operate an effective e-business infrastructure, organizations need a comprehensive yet centrally controlled management view of both front-end and back-end resources and applications. This requires collecting data from potentially millions of diverse objects, and then processing them in a consistent manner to support critical business processes. Vendors such as Evidian with proven expertise in deploying highly interoperable intelligent agent technology, stand the best chance of helping customers implement cost-effective e-business solutions." Marc Bouchard, Senior Analyst, Meta Group "Evidian's competition has been managing one problem at a time and then trying to backward-integrate all those piece parts. Evidian's approach starts by creating a common foundation for enterprise service-level management and security policy enforcement." Paul Bugala, Research Analyst, Network & Service Management, IDC "Service assurance is both a customer retention tool and service differentiator. But its business promises can only be realized if service assurance software, such as Evidian OpenMaster for Telecom, brings network and customer-facing management under control. Meeting these objectives is important in a time when customer loyalty is becoming critical to service providers."