Courion Closes 2005 with Record Growth; Strong Demand for Provisioning Innovation to Drive Continued Success in 2006.FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Courion(R) Corporation, the provisioning specialist, today announced a successful end to 2005, marked by customers' increased investment in core provisioning solutions. Record new sales and revenue growth resulted from continued market recognition of provisioning as being the strategic integration point between identity management and an organization's business - tying people to the resources they need to do their jobs. With its Enterprise Provisioning Suite(TM) - an integrated family of products that support account provisioning, compliance management, password reset and synchronization, and profile management - Courion made extraordinary strides in 2005 through the following accomplishments: Record growth and customer adoption: --Realized new sales growth of 62 percent over 2004 --Increased provisioning sales in 2005 to 70 percent of total sales --Continued its expansion within several key verticals, adding new healthcare customers to its roster including OhioHealth, Cincinnati Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. , Catholic Healthcare West Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) is a California not-for-profit public benefit corporation that operates hospitals in California, Arizona, and Nevada[1]. As such, it is exempt from federal and state income taxes. , Tandem Health Care, and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, located in Chicago's northern suburbs, is an academic health system affiliated with the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University and all attending physicians are on faculty at the Feinberg School of Medicine. and new financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. customers such as Aegis Mortgage Corporation and Great American Insurance Company --Produced third provisioning-focused customer conference, CONVERGE, featuring twelve customer presenters that drew over 140 participants and 70 companies in attendance Innovative technology developments: --Introduced AssetLink, a linking technology enabling seamless provisioning of non-IT assets to improve compliance and operational efficiencies --With Enterprise Provisioning Suite Version 7.30, delivered an even more appealing alternative to the infrastructure-heavy stack approach with features that further simplify installation and deployment, making Courion the most channel-ready solution on the market New partnerships: --With Deloitte & Touche, launched Identicare(TM), a new provisioning framework to help healthcare organizations in planning, implementing and managing their provisioning infrastructure --Partnered with Citrix to deliver a tightly integrated 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 enterprise single sign-on Enterprise single sign-on (E-SSO) systems are designed to minimize the number of times that a user must type their ID and password to sign into multiple applications. The E-SSO solution automatically logs users in, and acts as a password filler where automatic login is not possible. offering that gives customers using Citrix Password Manager A password manager is software that helps a user organize passwords and PIN codes. The software typically has a local database or files that holds the encrypted password data. (TM) a seamless end-user access experience Awards and industry recognition: --Ranked as a Market Challenger in META Group's METAspectrum(SM) report for Identity Management - User Provisioning --Awarded a Gold Medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize for Provisioning in Bloor Research's 2005 report for Identity Management --ComplianceCourier(TM) named a finalist in the 2006 SC Awards for the category of Best Policy Management in the Reader Trust Awards, and PasswordCourier(R) named a finalist in the category of Best Password Management --Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite received high marks in an eWEEK product review in which the product scored "Excellent" and "Good" in manageability, integration and audit support, capability and operations --President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Chris Zannetos appointed co-chair of TechNet's CEO Cyber Security Task Force The Cyber Security Task Force is organized under the department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada. Jane Billings, Assistant Deputy Minister, is the current Cyber Security Task Force Secretariat. , an organization focused on promoting awareness and best practices in cyber security and supporting public-private initiatives aimed at protecting America's information infrastructure "As identity stack vendors have acquired smaller provisioning companies and have been forced to focus on integrating their own solutions, Courion continued growing its business rapidly through innovation and customer success," said Chris Zannetos, president and CEO, Courion Corporation. "As the competition continues to grapple with to enter into contest with, resolutely and courageously. See also: Grapple how to deliver provisioning as part of a services-intensive stack, Courion is best positioned to continue to deliver provisioning solutions that immediately impact a customer's business with lasting value." ABOUT COURION Courion's focused innovation simplifies the complexities of provisioning to immediately impact its customers' business with lasting results. Unlike competitive technologies that concentrate on security-centric solutions at the expense of business operations, Courion takes a holistic approach holistic approach A term used in alternative health for a philosophical approach to health care, in which the entire Pt is evaluated and treated. See Alternative medicine, Holistic medicine. to provisioning by securely connecting people to critical enterprise resources. Working within a customer's existing IT environment to provide immediate pain point relief, customers worldwide utilize Courion to securely automate routine, manual processes for user provisioning, password management, audit and regulatory compliance, and profile management. |
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