Access360 Honored With Crossroads 2001 A-List Award; Company's enRole Software Chosen for its Provisioning Technology.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2001 Access360, a leading provider of resource provisioning management (RPM (1) (Revolutions Per Minute) With electric and electronics devices, RPM measures the rotational speed of the motor's spindle. Floppy disks rotate at 300 RPM, while hard disks rotate from 3,000 to 15,000 RPM. ) solutions, today announced that its flagship software, enRole(TM), received the prestigious Crossroads 2001 A-List Award in the category of Enterprise Security Administration: Provisioning User Access. Access360 will be recognized at the Eighth Annual Crossroads Conference, March 18-21, 2001, which is sponsored by Open Systems Advisors, Inc (OSA 1. OSA - Open Scripting Architecture. 2. OSA - Open System Architecture. ). The Crossroads A-List Award was created to be a reference tool for companies looking to define and evaluate products. The program uses qualitative research Qualitative research Traditional analysis of firm-specific prospects for future earnings. It may be based on data collected by the analysts, there is no formal quantitative framework used to generate projections. to identify the best new technologies proven to meet current business challenges. Granted by OSA analysts, an A-List Award indicates that an emerging product has successfully established itself, and can meet the implementation demands in today's market. OSA validates its research with extensive customer interviews. "Our research on Access360 showed customers sleep a lot better after they have implemented enRole," said Nina Lytton, president of Open Systems Advisors and editor of the Crossroads A-List. "If an employee leaves the company, his or her access rights can be revoked immediately. This dramatically reduces the company's security risk." "Access360 is honored to be recognized by the Crossroads A-List Award program, which reinforces our position as a leading provider of resource provisioning management solutions," said Jeff Drake, executive vice president of Access360. "It's equally rewarding to know that the award stems from the validation of customers. This is a truly gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. vote of confidence." Access360 helps large enterprise companies provision user access rights to an increasingly complex array of business resources -- from databases and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. to security systems and applications. The company's enRole software serves as a central point of control that -- based on corporate business policies -- assigns, changes, suspends or deletes user access to over 50 different computing systems and applications. Access360 continues to expand the number of resources that can be managed by its software and believes it has the broadest scope of resource management capabilities available in the market today. About Access360 Access360 is a provider of resource provisioning management (RPM) solutions for the enterprise and ASP markets. The company's enRole product introduces centralized control 1. In air defense, the control mode whereby a higher echelon makes direct target assignments to fire units. 2. In joint air operations, placing within one commander the responsibility and authority for planning, directing, and coordinating a military operation or group/category of of access rights to multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. . It helps customers such as BP Amoco, E*TRADE, Overseas Union Bank and Sony Electronics Sony Electronics Inc., headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is the largest component of Sony Corporation of America, the U.S. holding company for Sony's U.S.-based electronics and entertainment businesses. tighten system security, accelerate changes to business strategy, and reduce operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales . Based in Irvine, Calif., Access360 has offices throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information about Access360, please call 877/742-6400 or visit the Web site at www.access360.com. About the Crossroads A-List Awards The Crossroads A-List Awards clearly outline the business benefits, concisely summarize sum·ma·rize intr. & tr.v. sum·ma·rized, sum·ma·riz·ing, sum·ma·riz·es To make a summary or make a summary of. sum the technology differentiators, validate solutions with real customer experiences, and provide a basis for informed dialogue between business and technology partners. The Awards focus on enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. , the integrated system supporting the business process from the supply chain through the back office all the way to customer interaction. Winners are determined after a detailed review of the vendors' products or services and strategies. In-depth, confidential interviews with experienced customers are the cornerstone of the judgment process. Crossroads 2001 Conference Winners of the Crossroads 2001 A-List Awards and their customers will be recognized at the Eighth Annual Crossroads Conference to be held March 18-21, 2001 at the Wigwam Resort in Phoenix, AZ. About Open Systems Advisors, Inc. and the Crossroads Research Program Founded in 1989, Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA) provides a real-world perspective on using new technology in business. OSA's research is based on an ongoing and in-depth dialogue with hundreds of seasoned IT executives and business leaders who are using emerging technologies to achieve business results. OSA reports the Crossroads Decisions, confers the Crossroads A-List Awards and produces the Crossroads Conferences. For additional information, contact the company at: Open Systems Advisors, Inc., 268 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116, 617/859-0859; www.crossroads-osa.com. (R)Crossroads is a registered trademark, and (TM)Crossroads A-List, (TM)Crossroads Decisions and (TM)Bizno-tech are trademarks of Open Systems Advisors, Inc.; any other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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