TEC 2009 - Directory & Identity Sponsors

Microsoft

At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.

We run our business in much the same way, and believe our three core business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They are:

• Platform Products and Services Division: Includes the Client Group, the Server & Tools Group, and the Online Services Group
  
• Business Division: Includes the Information Worker Group, the Microsoft Business Solutions Group, and the Unified Communications Group
  
• Entertainment and Devices Division: Includes the Home & Entertainment Group and the Mobile & Embedded Devices Group

We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.

Oxford Computer Group

Oxford Computer Group (OCG) is an IT service company that specializes in Identity & Access Management. With operations in North America, the UK and Germany, OCG has an enviable repository of expertise, solution components and training courses. OCG has deployed 250+ enterprise-wide identity and access solutions and trained 2500+ people on Microsoft IDA technologies.

Oxford is a Microsoft Gold Partner with Advanced Infrastructure competency and are widely recognized as experts within the Microsoft community in the area of identity and access management.

Silver Sponsors

Ensynch

Ensynch is an award-winning provider of IT infrastructure consulting services with world-class expertise in the Identity and Access Management space. Ensynch serves mid-market to enterprise-level commercial and public sector customers. The company’s comprehensive service offerings include IT assessments, strategic planning, design and architecture, implementation, support and staffing. Ensynch has earned consecutive spots on the Inc 500 and numerous Microsoft distinctions including a Worldwide Partner Excellence Award. Ensynch is headquartered in Tempe, Ariz., with offices in Irvine, and Anaheim, California. For more information visit www.ensynch.com.

Optimal IdM

Optimal IdM, a Microsoft Partner and member of the Microsoft Security Partner Advisory Council, is a leading Microsoft solution provider of identity management software and consulting solutions that enhance the Microsoft Identity & Access product suite.  

Our flagship product, the Virtual Identity Server (VIS), is a .NET LDAP Virtual Directory that enhances a Microsoft identity management deployment, adding powerful data virtualization/transformation, real-time compliance and reporting, separation of duties (SOD) and role/group attestation capabilities. 
The Optimal IdM solution seamlessly integrates with and leverages the existing Microsoft infrastructure.  This lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO), while enabling customers to rapidly deploy applications to users across multiple identity stores with greater security and control.   Coupled with Microsoft’s Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM/ILM2), the Virtual Identity Server simplifies an identity management environment, while simultaneously adding additional capabilities and functionality. 

Each day, millions of users worldwide depend on Optimal IdM’s solutions, for their security, compliance and identity management needs. With solutions deployed on five continents, our customers include Fortune 1000, Federal, State and Local Governments covering a broad range of business verticals. 

Headquartered in Florida, Optimal IdM provides sales and services through regional offices across the United States and a growing network of partners and system integrators.  For more information on our products and solutions, please call us at 813.425.6351 or visit our website at http://www.optimalidm.com/.

Radiant Logic, Inc.

Radiant Logic, Inc. is the market leading provider of virtual directory solutions for identity management and enterprise information integration. The RadiantOnetm Identity and Context Virtualization Platform is being deployed by global enterprises to provide unified, secure access to identity and contextual views built out of heterogeneous applications and data sources. RadiantOnetm is a key enabler for authentication, authorization, profile and personalization initiatives.

For more information, visit www.radiantlogic.com.

Kuppinger Cole + Partner

Kuppinger Cole + Partner were founded in 2004 as an analyst group dedicated to provide expert advice on digital identity and IT security issues as well as independent and critical evaluation of products and solutions in the realm of identity & access management (IAM). With competency in areas such as e-governance, role management, compliance & IT risk management, business process optimization and business service management, along with identity and access management, KCP shares its knowledge and experience with clients in a wide range of markets and industries as well as public administration. We are especially concerned with demonstrating the connection between GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance), service-oriented “on demand” infrastructure environments and the ability of corporations and government agencies to manage digital identities safely and efficiently. Learn more at /www.kuppingercole.de.

TechNet Magazine

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