BANGALORE: ILANTUS, a provider of Identity Management (IdM) and user provisioning solutions, today announced the setting up of their Global BMC Identity Management Competency Centre in Bangalore.

The center will focus on IdM technologies like Web Access Control, MIIS based IdM Solution, Control SA and Calendra Workflow solution for IdM. As a novel area, compliance and regulatory requirements will form a part of the new technologies to be researched at the centre. The Global BMC Identity Management Competence Center will be the first of its kind worldwide to work exclusively on IdM technologies.

ILANTUS and BMC propose to hire up to 100 specialists for the center. The centre will provide solutions to all geographies and will produce intellectual property based on BMC technology. Established in 2000, ILANTUS has carved out a niche by implementing over 90 projects globally of its strategic and technological partner, BMC Software.

Speaking on the establishment of the centre, ILANTUS CEO, Binod Singh said, "We aim to develop the cutting edge solutions that will help businesses optimize and secure their access management processes. We see the competency centre being a resource that ILANTUS and BMC can harness to make tomorrow's identity solutions today"

George Sam, BMC Global Practice, will head the center. Speaking on the expertise of ILANTUS and the technology pursued at the Center, Sam said "It's been a pleasure working with ILANTUS for the competency center. This will be an exciting place to work in with all the current developments in IdM."

Identity Management has great growth potential in India as markets evolve. IDC predicts the India Identity & Access Management market to grow at 29.2%CAGR to about US$ 23.8 million by 2009.