Gartner says we're leaders, again!

Sun has once again been placed in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management.

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Product: Sun OpenSSO Enterprise (formerly Sun Access Manager)

Sun is a leader in the WAM market, due to a combination of technical platform expertise, diverse and experienced partnerships in consulting and SI; a growing customer base; and consistent customer service. OpenSSO Enterprise is a full-featured product, with identity federation, SOA capabilities and built-in Web services security functions.

Strengths

• Due to technical platform expertise, diverse and experienced partnerships in consulting and SI, a growing customer base, and consistent customer service, Sun is a leader in the WAM market.
• OpenSSO Enterprise is a full-featured product, with built-in identity federation, SOA capabilities and Web services security functions.
• Sun plays a leadership role in open-source WAM through the OpenSSO project, which gives the company a potential customer base and the benefit of the efforts of the community that has developed around OpenSSO. When this option is included, Sun has the widest variety of pricing options for a WAM offering, and also has appealing standard pricing.
• Sun has focused on ancillary functionality to ease deployment, including federation partner offerings ("fedlets"), as well as standard, out-of-the-box task-based workflows.
• Sun's Partner Advantage Program remains a model for covering consulting, system integration, VAR and independent software vendor (ISV) needs for IAM customers.
• OpenSSO Enterprise now includes Microsoft SharePoint support and a fully functional security token service.
  

Caution

• Sun has a large customer base for OpenSSO Enterprise; however, growth in the customer base was relatively flat in 2007.

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Posted at 04:12PM Dec 04, 2008 by Sarah Richardson in Events  |  Comments[1]