Determined to play first
chair in the Identity Management ensemble,
BMC Software this week debuted its BMC
Identity Management Suite.
Somesh Singh, Vice President
and General Manager of BMC's Identity
Management business unit, Houston, also
outlined a yearlong development road map
for the product.
Identity Management Suite
has the keys to unlock and communicate
with a greater number of customized, Web-based
applications and esoteric third-party
networks, said Singh. And by concentrating
and improving on five management areas-directories,
access, passwords, compliance auditing
and provisioning-BMC plans to deliver
an even more comprehensive suite by the
end of 2006, he said.
"Customers should
be able to deploy our suite and integrate
it with home-grown and third-party applications
easily, and by doing so extend our product,"
said Singh.
A component of BMC's overarching
Business Service Management solution stack,
Identity Management Suite can be used
to securely link an enterprise customer's
employees, business partners and customers
while protecting sensitive data and ensuring
a compliance-friendly audit trail, he
said.
This fall, a new Web-based
interface will appear along with the introduction
of the BMC Compliance Manager auditing
solution, BMC Federated Identity Manager
for federated ID groups and BMC Atrium
Identity Discovery-all of which will feed
BMC's Configuration Management Database,
a clearinghouse for best-practice configurations
that enables the modeling of changes against
known configurations.
Then later in 2006, BMC
expects to complete the integration of
a directory manager and a standardized,
open API, which customers can use to share
identity information across the five management
areas.
Binod Singh, President
and CEO of ILANTUS Technologies, a global
ID management integrator with offices
in Houston, swears allegiance to BMC's
Identity Management Suite. ILANTUS' sales
of BMC's Identity Management products
have risen 100 percent year over year,
and the BMC road map "is very timely"
for the industry's needs, he said.
BMC's January purchase
of French Identity Management vendor Calendra
and its March acquisition of OpenNetwork
Technologies, a Web-based application
and extranet technology vendor in Clearwater,
Fla., gave BMC the load-bearing elements
of the new suite. The acquisitions also
doubled the number of BMC's worldwide
channel partners after grafting Calendra
and OpenNetwork partner programs to its
own, said BMC's Singh
