BMC Software Delivers Industry's First Integration Between Identity Management and Configuration Management Database
October 03 2005 - 9:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
BMC Identity Management Suite Delivers Identity-Aware Business
Service Management With CMDB Integration, BMC Identity Compliance
Manager, and BMC Identity Federation Manager HOUSTON, Oct. 3
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Further expanding its identity management
offerings, BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE:BMC), a leading provider of
enterprise management solutions, today announced the global
availability of BMC(R) Identity Management Suite, version 5.0.
Delivering on Phase II of the BMC Identity Management Suite
integration blueprint outlined in June of 2005, today's
announcement introduces three new products that bolster BMC
Software's identity management and Business Service Management
(BSM) offerings -- BMC Identity Discovery, BMC Identity Compliance
Manager, and BMC Identity Federation Manager. Responding to growing
customer demand for a fully integrated suite of identity management
solutions, the updated BMC Identity Management Suite also provides
deeper levels of integration and interoperability helping customers
to run identity-aware business and IT environments. Through
automated processes and improved visibility into the IT
infrastructure, the BMC Identity Management Suite allows customers
to leverage identity information to proactively address business
critical issues such as compliance, authorized access, application
security, and data security. Additionally, identity-aware BSM
further increases cost savings and improves operational efficiency
by creating tighter links between identity management and business
services. "Over the past 24 months we have seen a lot of
consolidation in the identity and access management market
resulting from customer demand for holistic, integrated solutions.
The success of these acquisitions is in the execution and delivery
of their integration plans, and we are closely watching the vendors
in this area," said Roberta J. Witty, Research Vice President,
Gartner, Inc. "We are also seeing a shift in how identity and
access management is being used in the business. Companies are
looking to incorporate IAM solutions into their business processes
and add business value to assist with business critical issues,
such as compliance." The BMC Identity Management Suite is an
integrated offering of directory management and visualization,
access management, user administration and provisioning, password
management and audit and compliance management solutions. In
addition to providing customers a broad spectrum of integrated
offerings, the now available BMC Identity Management Suite also
introduces three new products that leverage the concepts of
Business Service Management to help customers attain greater
business value and insight from their enterprise identity data.
"Technology solutions that build and maintain an IT infrastructure
are no longer sufficient. Customers now need to be able to
demonstrate business value of investment in their IT
infrastructure, only BMC offers a suite of solutions founded on the
principles of ITIL and Business Service Management," said Somesh
Singh, vice president and general manager, Identity Management
Business Unit, BMC. "We have distinguished ourselves from the
competition not only by providing one of the most integrated suites
on the market, but also by having the unique ability to leverage
identity data across the IT infrastructure to allow our customers
to better manage the impact of changes in process and technology on
people." "Having a comprehensive view of our IT infrastructure that
recognizes end users as a critical component will help us run a
more secure and business- savvy organization," said Gregor Kunz, IT
Manager, Manor AG, the largest department store retailer in
Switzerland. "BMC recognizes that our needs stretch beyond point
products. Their solutions will help us ensure that our IT
operations are in lockstep with our business goals all while
helping mitigate risk and increasing the security of our users and
other sensitive information." BMC Identity Discovery: Unique to the
industry, BMC Identity Discovery allows customers to populate the
BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB) with identity
data. Aligning identity data with the BMC Atrium CMDB allows
customers to directly link hardware and software assets to specific
users in an organization for better visibility into the IT
enterprise, business processes, and resource allocations. By
expanding the view of the IT infrastructure to include people, in
addition to hardware, software, and applications, customers can
strengthen and enhance services and initiatives around asset and
discovery management, change and configuration management, impact
and event handling, and service management. In turn, BMC Identity
Discovery helps customers use identity information for more
effective business process management. Most importantly, with BMC
Identity Discovery customers can see which end users are affected
by any possible configuration changes, improving business service
delivery by reducing risk and outages resulting from changes in the
IT environment. BMC Identity Compliance Manager: Rooted in the
principles of ITIL, BSM provides a natural foundation of best
practices to address one of today's most pressing business
concerns, compliance. BMC today introduces the BMC Identity
Compliance Manager enabling customers to proactively prepare for
compliance while reducing compliance-oriented costs and resource
allocations using automated IT control processes. An identity
management-based solution, the BMC Identity Compliance Manager uses
a graphical dashboard to report on policy compliance. The solution
assists organizations in demonstrating that proper policies and
controls are implemented throughout the organization while
detailing the alignment of user access and corresponding activities
with regulatory mandates including Sarbanes-Oxley, Health
Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and others.
Through the dashboard, customers track, manage, and archive all
policy exceptions helping to proactively identify and prepare for
regulatory mandates. Additionally, the BMC Identity Compliance
Manager provides customers with an automated workflow to quickly
remedy policy exceptions helping customers ensure that systems are
always in compliance. BMC Identity Federation Manager: The BMC
Identity Federation Manager helps customers expand the reach of
their business through IT by ensuring key stakeholders have the
right level of access to key business applications. Bringing
trusted parties such as customers, partners, and vendors closer to
the business, the BMC Identity Federation Manager allows users to
move seamlessly through different domains of resources. In turn,
the solution provides organizations with a secure route of
communication across entities resulting in increased productivity
while addressing security and privacy concerns over authorization,
access, and risk management. Making federation simple for
customers, the BMC Identity Federation Manager supports more
standards and specifications than any other federation offering on
the market. SAML 1.0, SAML 2.0, Liberty ID-FF 1.0, WS-Federation
(including Microsoft ADFS), and Shibboleth are all supported.
Today's announcement also marks the availability of a seamless end
user interface designed to improve the overall user experience by
providing a Web based interface that is fully integrated with
business process workflow capabilities. About the BMC Identity
Management Suite Aligning people with business processes and
services, the BMC Identity Management Suite helps customers run an
identity aware business. Focusing on five key identity management
solution areas, directory management and visualization, access
management, password management, user administration and
provisioning, and audit and compliance management, BMC identity
management solutions offer customers enhanced visibility into the
IT infrastructure and stronger correlations to business processes
helping to improve service delivery to their customers. A proven
and trusted solution, the BMC User Administration and Provisioning
tool earned a Common Criteria Certification in July of 2005. For
more information about BMC Identity Management visit
http://www.bmc.com/identitymanagement About BMC Software BMC
Software, Inc., is a leading provider of enterprise management
solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure
from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service
Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems,
applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980,
BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2005 revenues of more
than $1.46 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit
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