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Netegrity Announces IdentityMinder 6.0

Netegrity Inc, a provider of identity and access management solutions, announced the next major release of its Netegrity IdentityMinder solution. IdentityMinder Web Edition 6.0 provides enhanced flexibility, efficiency, and ease-of-use for managing user identities across business applications. This latest edition of IdentityMinder features support for relational databases, a new Web service interface and further flexibility for user management. IdentityMinder is a key component of Netegrity's comprehensive identity and access management solution, which includes user management, provisioning, access management and Web services security capabilities.

Reynolds and Reynolds, a provider of software solutions and services that helps automotive retailers manage their operations and improve profitability, is streamlining customer support through the use of Netegrity IdentityMinder 5.6.

"Web-based customer services play a major role in our business," said Steve Kesler, director of information security for Reynolds and Reynolds. "Netegrity IdentityMinder, overall, provides Reynolds with a flexible solution for managing the identities of thousands of employees within our dealership customer base. With Netegrity's technology, we've been able to cost-effectively offer those customers the ability to assign and manage secure single sign-on access to business applications within our Myreyrey.com portal."

IdentityMinder enables organizations to improve overall security, reduce operational costs, and increase user satisfaction and productivity for Web-delivered applications. The new features of IdentityMinder 6.0 further streamline the process of managing users and provide enhanced flexibility to meet the needs of a wide range of business environments. New features in IdentityMinder Web Edition 6.0 include:

IdentityMinder now delivers user management services such as self-service administration, workflow, delegation, auditing, and role definitions for organizations that use relational databases as their user stores. In addition to relational databases, IdentityMinder continues to support the administration of users in LDAP. This reinforces Netegrity's mission of providing a flexible solution that supports a broad range of IT infrastructures and enables organizations to better leverage their existing IT investments.

IdentityMinder's new Web service interface and support of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) standard allows organizations to expose identity management tasks as Web services. This enables organizations to integrate user management tasks, such as create/modify/delete users, self-service, and forgotten password capabilities, into the organization's portal or expose them externally to partners and customers, while still leveraging the automated user administration services of IdentityMinder. This reduces development costs for the organization and provides a more consistent user experience.

IdentityMinder automates the management of user identities, including group & organization memberships, role assignments, and profile attributes. With IdentityMinder 6.0 Netegrity has further streamlined the management of users with:

"As companies continue to expand their online initiatives, the number of external users, such as partners and customers, continues to grow exponentially, presenting significant user management challenges," said Bill Bartow, vice president of engineering at Netegrity. "With IdentityMinder 6.0, Netegrity is taking identity administration to the next level by providing a solution that is not only flexible and robust enough to accommodate varying organization's needs but is also intuitive enough to make it easy for non-IT personnel to administer users."