Courion Hosts Successful Enterprise Provisioning Customer Conference; Customers' Success Recognized Through Annual Awards Program.FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Courion(R) Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise provisioning solutions, held its third annual enterprise provisioning customer conference last week in Boston, MA, the first provisioning-focused event in the industry. 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. '05 attracted an array of business and technology professionals including C-level executives from some of the nation's largest companies. This year's event reached several milestones including an increase in customer attendance by 30%, a partner product showcase and the addition of technical and business strategy tracks that examined top-of-mind provisioning and identity management issues from an executive vantage point. CONVERGE '05 included Courion customer case studies and panel discussions with senior level IT and data security executives and project leaders that focused on best practices for provisioning, compliance and password management. Presenters shared insight into how Courion's solutions are helping them to improve business velocity, achieve sustained efficiencies and deliver transparent compliance. Companies that presented at this year's event included 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. , Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, 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. , Dow Chemical, Flagstar Bank Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: FBC) operates as the holding company for Flagstar Bank, a federally chartered stock savings bank. Flagstar is the largest publicly traded savings bank headquartered in the midwest United States. , The Internal Revenue Service, Sharp HealthCare Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit integrated regional health care delivery system located in San Diego. Sharp includes four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three affiliated medical groups and a health plan. , State Street Corporation, 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. Inc. and Unisen Inc. This year the conference also featured two distinguished keynote keynote /key·note/ (ke´not) in homeopathy, the characteristic property of a drug that indicates its use in treating a similar symptom of disease. speakers: Lt. General, U.S. Air Force (Retired), Kenneth A. Minihan, former Director of the National Security Agency and Colin Crook, Senior Fellow Wharton School, former CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , Citicorp and author of The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business. In addition to the keynote and customer presentations, industry analyst, Earl Perkins, Vice President, Security & Privacy with Gartner, presented a session about implementing provisioning strategies to manage constant change and the organizational dynamics of today's enterprise. This session discussed how Identity Management has become critical across the spectrum of business needs, and how Provisioning is the key to helping organizations unlock the value of that asset. "CONVERGE '05 provided a unique opportunity to talk with other business and technology professionals about their enterprise provisioning projects and goals," said Tim Callahan, vice president and manager of access control and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services for SunTrust Banks, Inc. "Between the great information shared at the business, technical and executive sessions and the ability to network with peers, Courion's annual conference provided a valuable experience to those looking to learn more about provisioning or to talk with others about how to further increase the benefits of their provisioning projects." As part of Courion's continuing commitment to become true partners with its customers, the company recognized the outstanding accomplishments of 12 of its customers' ongoing success of their provisioning , compliance and password management projects presenting 5 prestigious awards throughout the conference that included: --Self-Service Attainment Award - recognized customers including Dow Chemical and Guardian Life Insurance for the wide spread adoption of self-service functionality by their user community. --Best User Adoption Award - recognized customers including Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, Internal Revenue Service and O2 for their ability to rapidly achieve 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). from their provisioning and password projects. --Innovator Award - recognized SunTrust Banks, Inc. for leveraging Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite to meet their unique business needs around compliance and growth through mergers and acquisitions. --Leveraging PasswordCourier(R) to Move to Provisioning Award - recognized customers including Compass Bank for extending their Identity Management infrastructure by building upon their password management implementations and success with 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 . --Customer Partnering Award - recognized long-term customers including State Street Corporation, Children's Hospital Boston, Sun Trust Banks, Inc. and Boeing for their ongoing support and commitment to Courion through thought leadership and participation in industry initiatives. "With a significant increase in the number of C-level attendees at this year's conference, it is clear that enterprise provisioning has taken center stage at a business level, impacting operational efficiency, revenue generation and service quality;" said Chris Zannetos, president and 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. , Courion. "We will continue to provide this unique forum to our customers in an effort to enable them to meet their constantly changing business needs through enterprise provisioning." For more information about Courion's CONVERGE '05 customer conference please visit http://www.courion.com/news/customer_conference.asp. About Courion Courion enables complex organizations to rapidly respond to constant change. Unlike traditional identity and access management technologies, Courion's Dynamic Community-based Provisioning empowers you to deliver transparent compliance, sustained efficiencies and improved business velocity, by effectively adapting to and leveraging your changing business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets , technology infrastructure and organization. Over 250 enterprise customers worldwide including 60 of the FORTUNE 500 utilize Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite(TM) to securely automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. routine, manual processes for 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. , password management, industry and regulatory compliance, profile management, and digital certificate management. For more information, contact Courion's headquarters in Framingham, MA, USA at 508-879-8400 or visit www.courion.com. Courion and PasswordCourier are registered trademarks. Dynamic Communities and Enterprise Provisioning Suite are trademarks of Courion Corporation. |
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