Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Selects Waveset to Manage Secure User Access to Extended Enterprise.Business Editors & Transportation/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001 Access Management Automation Solution to Build New Efficiencies in Railroad Operations Waveset Technologies Inc., a provider of e-business security management, announced today that The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. Railway Company (BNSF BNSF Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (railroad) ), one of the largest railway systems in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , has purchased Waveset Lighthouse(tm) to securely control user access to its extended enterprise infrastructure. The product will be used to drive down operational costs and improve BNSF's quality of service in providing and maintaining accounts for more than 45,000 internal and external users across a diverse environment of legacy- and Web-based applications See Web application. . BNSF's railroad network encompasses 33,500 route miles The number of miles that are spanned by a telecommunications network. It does not include combined wire mileage due to multiple wires or fibers within a single cable or by overlapping segments, just the total geographic distance between cities or other terminal points. of track covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. Through its Information Systems Operations Center The facility or location on an installation, base, or facility used by the commander to command, control, and coordinate all crisis activities. See also base defense operations center; command center. , the company manages an extensive IT infrastructure that facilitates the transportation of a wide range of products and commodities including coal, grain, intermodal containers and trailers, chemicals, metals and minerals, forest products, automobiles and consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and . To support the complex logistics behind these mission-critical operations, BNSF must provide its employees, suppliers, customers and service partners with timely access to information systems, while protecting sensitive resources from malicious attacks or high-risk exposure. Prior to Waveset, the railroad utilized a combination of un-integrated and homegrown home·grown adj. 1. Raised or grown at home. 2. Originating in or characteristic of a locality: "Rock is homegrown music in the United States, evolved from blues and country and Tin Pan Alley" solutions to manage the risks associated with user access requirements. However, business demands to tighten supply chains and provide a higher quality of customer service limited these solutions' ability to support BNSF's access management needs for increasingly diverse user populations. "We are responsible for delivering everything from raw materials to end-user consumer goods, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, supporting thousands of customers and partners across a widely distributed Adj. 1. widely distributed - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" cosmopolitan bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms railway system," said Rick Perry James Richard Perry (b. March 4, 1950) is a Republican politician and the Governor of Texas. He assumed office in December 2000 when then-Governor George W. Bush resigned to prepare for his inauguration as President of the United States. Gov. , BNSF's director of enterprise operations and security. "To operate these services efficiently, we need a highly automated, intuitive solution that controls the configuration of users across hundreds of geographically dispersed applications and systems. Lighthouse will help ensure that we meet our quality of service needs while continuing to comply with critical security controls and standards. In our business, that can mean the difference between getting costly cargo somewhere safely, and on time, or not getting it there at all." Leveraging Waveset's comprehensive access management automation capabilities -- identity management, user self-service and delegated administration Delegated administration describes the decentralization of role-based-access-control systems. Many enterprises use a centralized model of access control. For large organizations, this model scales poorly and IT teams become burdened with menial role-change requests. -- BNSF expects to streamline account provisioning and maintenance processes across the full breadth of its operational environments and user constituencies. BNSF's implementation will focus on reducing the turnaround time (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time. for new user account creation and account changes from two days to just a few minutes, and improving the timeliness of password resets. The product's ability to centrally control and provide granular visibility into user accounts across both legacy- and Web-based environments will enable BNSF to more easily see and manage who has access to what, and to turn that access on or off, depending on a user's change in status. Ultimately, the railroad will implement Lighthouse to delegate the administration of user accounts to trusted partners and customers across its extended enterprise, putting control in the hands of the people who know their organization's needs the best. "The railroad industry has a long and prosperous history of aggressively applying leading-edge technologies to the management of mission-critical transportation systems," said Mark McClain, president and founder of Waveset Technologies Inc. "As a leader in its market, BNSF selected Waveset to build new efficiencies into its operations -- leveraging existing infrastructures in combination with new solutions to meet needs of today's evolving e-business environment." About The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BNI BNI Business Network International BNI Business Networking International BNI Bank Negara Indonesia BNI Bechtel National, Inc. BNI British Nursing Index BNI Barrow Neurological Institute (Phoenix, AZ) ), BNSF operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with 33,500 route miles of track covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is a freight transportation industry leader in Web-enabling customer transactions. About Waveset Technologies Inc. Waveset Technologies Inc. is a provider of e-business security management software. The company develops access management automation software that enables the secure control of e-business initiatives across intranets and extranets, enabling e-business and IT managers to concentrate their efforts on core business objectives. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Waveset Technologies Inc. is funded by Lightspeed Ventures Partners, Austin Ventures, Origin Partners, Silverton Partners, AV Labs and other private investors. For more information, please visit: www.waveset.com. Waveset, Waveset Lighthouse and the Waveset logo are trademarks of Waveset Technologies Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of the company with which they are associated. |
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