Business Layers' eProvisionware-TM Supports Microsoft's Active Directory; Directory-based eProvisioning-TM is extended to customers worldwide.UPPER SADDLE RIVER Saddle River may refer to:
Business Layers announced today that eProvisionware(TM), their directory-based eProvisioning solution, will support the Active Directory(TM) directory service of the Microsoft (R) Windows(R) 2000 Server operating system See network operating system. . This will allow users to streamline the provisioning of digital resources by integrating processes with information about people, machines and applications stored in Active Directory. By leveraging Active Directory services, Business Layers' eProvisionware is able to access data about an organization's entire infrastructure and use this data to drive the provisioning process. eProvisionware addresses the business challenge of handling employee change management effectively, by streamlining and automating the provisioning of digital resources ("eProvisioning") associated with employee changes. Digital resources addressed by eProvisionware are any type of IT infrastructure components that reside within a company Intranet or on its Extranet, and which individuals need to have access to in order to accomplish business tasks. For example, integrating new employees into an organization requires administrators to allocate To reserve a resource such as memory or disk. See memory allocation. numerous business-driven IT tasks such as equipment procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. , password allocation, security clearance level, Internet access See how to access the Internet. and many others. Furthermore, removing ex-employees "out of the system" is an equally complex task. Neither task is simple to implement today. By leveraging on infrastructure and user information residing within Active Directory, Business Layers' eProvisionware handles simplified such sophisticated digital provisioning processes and increases business productivity. "We have enabled companies to leverage profile information stored in Active Directory, and to make advanced provisioning processes possible through our enhanced workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. and task management capabilities," said David Lavenda, Business Layers' Vice President of Marketing. "With eProvisionware, an organization can realize increased productivity, save time, and reduce the administration costs of employee changes. For fast-moving, dynamic companies, eProvisioning provides a competitive edge." "Customers are asking for ways to simplify the process of ensuring that users have the resources and access rights that they need to do their jobs in a dynamic business environment," said Peter Houston, lead product manager for Active Directory at Microsoft Corp. "eProvisioning promises to add value by integrating automated provisioning The ability to set up new communications services for customers automatically. Carriers use automated provisioning to set up their network based on customers' requirements. Such systems control all network devices from a central console and greatly speed up deployment time from days to capabilities with the wealth of information that customers will keep about users and their network in Active Directory." A beta release See beta version. of the product will be available in Q4 1999. About Business Layers Business Layers is developing a breakthrough class of directory-based applications that translate how business changes impact a organization's digital infrastructure, and automatically provision digital services and resources. eProvisionware solutions cover a wide range of business driven IT activities over corporate Intranets and across Extranets. Business Layers is headquarted in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Upper Saddle River is a Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 7,741. It is not to be confused with the neighboring borough of Saddle River. and has Engineering facilities in Ra'anana, Israel. |
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