Evidian positioned in Gartner's Leader Quadrant for enterprise single sign-on

Paris, September 26, 2007  –  Evidian, the leading European provider of Identity and Access Management solutions, announced today that it has been positioned by Gartner in the Leader Quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Single Sign-On, 2007*."

Released on August 30 2007, Gartner's report analyses the enterprise single-sign-on (E-SSO) market and evaluates 14 solutions available on the market. Quadrant positions are established based on each vendor's ability to execute and completeness of vision. Criteria include the vendor's product/service, overall viability, sales execution/pricing, market responsiveness and track record, customer experience, market understanding, sales strategy, offering/product strategy, business model, vertical/industry strategy and geographic strategy.

According to Gartner, "Leaders in the E-SSO market show a consistent ability to gain new customers in broad industries and geographies, and at the higher end of the quadrant, have very good to excellent customer references, products that easily or very easily integrate with target systems, and a commitment to rapidly provide the product updates their customers want."

"In my opinion, this report demonstrates the value of our E-SSO offer, which has already been chosen by hundreds of large companies worldwide and currently experiences strong growth with the development of new channels and partnerships" said Hassan Maad, Managing Director of Evidian. "I believe it also validates our strategy and offer that unifes identity and access management at the level of enterprise business processes, in particular with the recent release of IAM Suite 8, a major milestone in our development."

Drawing on years of experience and innovation, Evidian's E-SSO software is a best-of breed SSO solution that offers unique mobility and data privacy features. Evidian's E-SSO plugs the gap between traditional SSO tools and corporate business policies. It provides advanced role-based management capabilities that accelerate time to value and enforce user security and productivity.

Evidian's E-SSO can be deployed jointly with the other modules of Evidian IAM Suite—including the innovative Policy Manager module. It can also be deployed in a standalone mode or together with any of the identity management solutions on the market. As a result, Evidian helps organizations leverage SSO to get the most value out of their existing identity management investment.

To discover Evidian's E-SSO in 3 steps, please visit: http://www.evidian.com/iam/enterprise-sso/try.htm

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. 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 a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

* Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Single Sign-on" by Gregg Kreizman, Aug. 30, 2007