Courion Announces Impressive Line-up at Second Customer Conference.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CONVERGE con·verge v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es v.intr. 1. a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge. b. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004 Boeing, Office Depot Office Depot (NYSE: ODP) is one of the world's leading suppliers of office products and services. The Company's selection of brand name office supplies includes business machines, computers, computer software and office furniture, while its business services encompass copying, , Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6. and Others to Share Best Practices Case Studies for Identity Management Courion(R) Corporation, a leading provider of self-service identity management solutions, today announced an impressive line-up of customer presentations at its second identity management customer conference, CONVERGE. Courion customers including The Boeing Company, Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital Boston is a children's hospital located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 300 Longwood Avenue, Children's is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. , Cox Communications, Dollar Tree Stores, Office Depot, and SunTrust Banks SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE: STI) is an American bank holding company. The largest subsidiary is SunTrust Bank. It had $182.2 billion in assets as of December 31, 2006. will participate in panel sessions addressing a variety of identity management topics and present best practices case studies for automating identity management to an audience of their peers at the conference in May. From May 25 through May 27, 2004, Courion customers will gather at CONVERGE in Boston to network with their peers from around the world and learn more about how Courion's identity management solutions are having a positive impact on entire organizations. CONVERGE attendees will be addressed by other Courion users, who will share how their user provisioning The ability for customers to change voice and data services from their carriers online without having to place the order with a human representative. Web-based user provisioning lets you add and delete services and features from your browser. See automated provisioning. and password management solutions help them reduce costs, increase security and improve service. "While Courion has certainly worked hard to help us maximize our ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). while using their products, we've found that one of the best opportunities to leverage those products is by discussion and sharing of best practices with other Courion customers," said Brett Sloan, senior Courion system architect, The Boeing Company. "Many of us, no matter the industry involved, face the same identity management and security challenges and have had few, if any, opportunities in the past to learn from each other. CONVERGE offers an excellent venue for Courion customers to exchange thoughts, philosophy, and information on technical and procedural best practices. This cross-pollenization is extremely beneficial to customers and engenders a better understanding within the ranks of Courion as to the needs of their customer base." Courion is hosting CONVERGE in May due to the unanimous feedback from customers requesting that Courion host the next CONVERGE in the spring rather than wait until the fall. "Last fall, we walked away from CONVERGE with tangible action plans to maximize our return on investment and minimize the total cost of ownership of our identity management solutions," said Joseph DiBenedetto, senior security manager, Office Depot. "Things change so quickly in our environments, we didn't want to wait until next fall to meet again." CONVERGE attendees will hear representatives from IT and HR Systems at Cox Communications, the fourth-largest cable television provider in the U.S., explain how Courion's Identity Management Suite(TM) has streamlined their user provisioning and password management processes to create operational efficiencies, enhance security, avoid costs and enhance productivity by getting new hires up and running faster and by redeploying IT resources formally dedicated to handling provisioning tasks. The director of HR Systems at Cox Communications will also deliver a presentation later at the conference about how to make a business case for identity management to the top decision makers as this can often be one of the most challenging aspects of an identity management initiative. During a panel discussion among representatives from Children's Hospital Boston, Office Depot and SunTrust the audience will hear about the various business drivers that led to the deployment of AccountCourier automated user provisioning and how it has delivered business value by eliminating orphaned or·phan n. 1. a. A child whose parents are dead. b. A child who has been deprived of parental care and has not been adopted. 2. A young animal without a mother. 3. accounts, streamlining the on-boarding and off-boarding processes, helping meet regulatory compliance, and facilitating attestation The act of attending the execution of a document and bearing witness to its authenticity, by signing one's name to it to affirm that it is genuine. The certification by a custodian of records that a copy of an original document is a true copy that is demonstrated by his or her . In another panel discussion, the audience will learn from The Boeing Company and Dollar Tree Stores how very diverse organizations--whether compared by size, industry, corporate culture, or where they are in their identity management lifecycle--have achieved success with their password management projects. SunTrust Banks will participate in a breakout session that will examine how identity management solutions are helping organizations comply with a series of government mandated regulations that have forced enterprises to develop strong policies and systems that enforce privacy and guarantee accountability and compliance. SunTrust will also later contribute to a session on the best use of Courion's IdentityLink technology to prepare for automated user provisioning and password management. Enterprises implementing identity management projects often find themselves at the outset facing a seemingly insurmountable problem of dispersed dis·perse v. dis·persed, dis·pers·ing, dis·pers·es v.tr. 1. a. To drive off or scatter in different directions: The police dispersed the crowd. b. and inconsistent information on users' identities. Courion's IdentityLink technology provides the ability to map user IDs and their associated access permissions so that massive data cleansing See address cleansing and data hygiene. projects can be avoided. "We are constantly leveraging the experience from our work with more than 200 enterprise customers to develop and share best practices across our customer base," said Deb Pappas, vice president of marketing, Courion. "At CONVERGE we are able to facilitate an unparalleled exchange of these actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. plans for overcoming common identity management challenges in today's heterogeneous IT environments." About Courion Courion Corporation is a leading provider of self-service identity management solutions that help enterprises drive operational efficiency by securely automating routine, manual processes. Courion's Identity Management Suite(TM), anchored by its AccountCourier(R) user provisioning and PasswordCourier(R) password management product lines, leverages existing infrastructure and integrates disparate workflows within the enterprise to optimize user productivity, strengthen security, reduce costs and ensure efficient regulatory compliance and reporting. Over 200 enterprises including more than 50 FORTUNE 500 customers rely on Courion's solutions to streamline identity management operations. These include industry leaders such as American Electric Power American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) is a major investor-owner electric utility in various parts of the United States. It is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It serves parts of 11 states, and is currently the largest electricity generating utility in the United States. , The Boeing Company, Children's Hospital Boston, Fannie Mae Fannie Mae: see Federal National Mortgage Association. , GE, Office Depot, SunTrust Banks, government institutions such as the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Census Bureau Noun 1. Census Bureau - the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States Bureau of the Census , and large not-for-profit organizations such as Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. . For more information, contact Courion's headquarters in Framingham, MA, USA at 508-879-8400 or visit www.courion.com. Courion, AccountCourier and PasswordCourier are registered trademarks of Courion Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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