Courion Posts Record Gains in 2006.New Customers, Products, Channel Partners and Awards Mark the Most Successful Year in Company History FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Courion[R] Corporation, the provisioning experts for results-driven operations, today announced record performance for 2006, including a 38 percent increase in total new sales growth and 43 percent new provisioning sales growth. Much of this momentum was driven by increased customer adoption of its Enterprise Provisioning Suite[TM] solution and new product and partner strategies focused on growth markets such as access compliance, role management, and addressing the provisioning needs of the mid-market. In 2006, the company also launched its RoleCourier[TM] role management solution. RoleCourier is the only role lifecycle management solution on the market that is directly integrated with an 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 solution to handle role and access provisioning as well as remediation. This extension to the Enterprise Provisioning Suite helped drive over 20 percent of 2006 total license sales. In addition to strong customer demand, Courion continued to receive impressive industry recognition. Gartner positioned Courion in the "challenger" quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. 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. , 1H06(1), while Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
The company unveiled an ambitious Value Added Reseller See VAR. (company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software). (VAR) program to deliver provisioning and identity management solutions to the mid-market. As part of the VAR program, Courion delivered the Courion Enterprise Provisioning Suite[TM] Jump Start Options, specifically designed to address the identity management needs of the mid-market. Courion also announced expanded partner initiatives, including integration with Citrix Presentation Server Software from Citrix that provides a timeshared, multiuser environment for Unix and Windows servers. Formerly MetaFrame, Citrix Presentation Server uses the ICA protocol to turn the client machine into a terminal and governs the input/output between the client and server. [TM] to provide new access compliance capabilities for virtualized application environments. CONVERGE 06, Courion's 4th annual customer conference, attracted 165 business and technology professionals, 46 percent of whom were first-time attendees. The conference featured industry-leading corporations such as AARP AARP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan national organization dedicated to "enriching the experience of aging"; membership is open to people age 50 or older. Founded in 1958 by Ethel Percy Andrus as American Association of Retired Persons, AARP now has over 30 million , 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. , Compass Bancshares, Federal-Mogul Corporation, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, SunTrust Banks, The Boeing Company, and WellSpan Health speaking on topics such as automated role creation, segregation of duties, provisioning, 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. , password management and more. "2006 was a landmark year for Courion as the company demonstrated its ability to capture increased market share," 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 Corporation. "Our vision for the provisioning and access compliance market was validated by our customers and the industry recognition we received in the past year. By growing at a rate of twice the projected market growth (2), Courion has demonstrated it can successfully compete head-on with the world's largest software and hardware companies and is emerging as the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. leader of the provisioning space." ABOUT COURION Courion is the Enterprise Provisioning and Access Compliance Expert for results-driven organizations. Built on market-proven technology, Courion's software solutions streamline operations and automate business processes to simultaneously achieve cost, security and service quality results. Courion's innovative approach eliminates the complexity and barriers to provisioning and compliance adoption, resulting in an unparalleled track record of customer success. For more information, please visit our website at www.courion.com. Courion is a registered trademark of Courion Corporation. Enterprise Provisioning Suite and RoleCourier are trademarks of Courion Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. (1) Gartner "Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning, 1H06" by Roberta Witty, Ant Allan and Ray Wagner. April 25, 2006. (2) Total worldwide market growth from 2005 - 2006 in user provisioning was 22%. IDC Worldwide Identity and Access Management 2006-2010 Forecast Update with Submarket Segments, December 2006 |
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