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Sun named as leader in Burton Provisioning Market RoundUp

The folks over at Burton have just released their latest report on the enterprise user provisioning market, you can find the research paper online here , they name four vendors as leading the market, Oracle, Sun, IBM and Novell, no real surprise there.

What was interesting to read is the focus now on Role Management with provisioning solutions.

 This is great news for Sun and our customers since Sun acquired one of the market leaders, Vaau, along with their RBACx product (now Sun Role Manager). Tight integration exists between Role Manager and Identity Manager allowing customers to perform all Role lifecycle functions such as Role discovery, Role definition and Role certification within Sun Role Manager and leverage those Roles inside Sun Identity Manager for provisioning purposes. It's good to see that Burton consider us gaining momentum with our integrated Role management strategy

 I'm still wondering with interest which of the provisioning vendors who have not yet made a Role Managment acquisition will snap up the talented folks and ex-colleagues over at Sailpoint ?

 Also good news for Sun is Burtons recommendation for a proof of concept (POC) since our talented engineers can really demonstrate first hand the value and ease of use of our Identity products in front of customers. This is where we can show that we can install and configure our product to meet the customers requirements in a matter of days, no need to cheat by wheeling in pre-configured virtualized images put together in the back room, when we do POCs we're up front and walk the customer through every step if we get the opportunity. Smoke and mirrors only comes back to bite further on down the line, my views are that vendors have to be transparent, up front and honest in what can be achieved in a POC and what cannot.

As the market gets even more competitive we're certainly looking forward to competing in the 2009 Enterprise User Provisioning market and seeing how the Role management market shapes up.

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