Critical Path Solution Helps Automate Provisioning and Synchronize User Profiles in Telecom Italia Lab.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2002 Meta-Directory Technology Shortens Time to Update User Profiles From 15 Days to One and Minimizes Internal Security Risks Through Daily Updates Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTH), a global leader in digital communications Transmitting text, voice and video in binary form. See communications. software and services, today announced that Telecom Italia Telecom Italia is formerly a partially state-owned Italian telco. It was once known as SIP, and it has the largest user base in Italy. Telecom Italia also owns shares in Telecom Argentina and Telecom Personal, fixed and cellular networks in Argentina. Lab (TILAB TILAB Telecom Italia Lab ), the research center of Telecom Italia Group, is successfully using its Identity Management solution to manage more than 1,500 employee profiles. Using the Critical Path solution TILAB has significantly reduced the time it takes to provision and update user profiles, ensuring new employees are up and running quickly and eliminating security issues related to existing or former employees. TILAB selected Critical Path because its meta-directory solution met several key functionality requirements, offered flexible customization options and provided automatic information management. The Critical Path Meta-Directory Server(TM) was one of the first data integration solutions on the market, and it out-performed other solutions in TILAB's original evaluation. TILAB today uses the Critical Path solution to synchronize employee data housed on multiple directories and databases. Earlier this year, TILAB extended its Identity Management solution by working with Critical Path partner Netegrity to implement Netegrity's SiteMinder(TM) Single Sign-On An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. (SSO See single sign-on and CSO. SSO - single sign-on ), functionality for centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management of access and authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. policies. The combined solutions enable TILAB's employees to access most Web applications with a single user name and password combination, resulting in fewer help desk calls, less strain on IT resources and improved workforce productivity. TILAB's next step is to integrate its SAP environment with its existing Critical Path Meta-Directory Server and Netegrity's SiteMinder, which it plans to do in the coming months. "Companies today are under tremendous pressure to optimize business processes, minimize security risks and extract additional value out of existing technology investments," said G. Mario Bobba, vice president of Critical Path for Southern Europe Southern Europe or sometimes Mediterranean Europe is a region of the European continent. There is no clear definition of the term which can vary depending on whether geographic, cultural, linguistic or historical factors are taken into account. . "With Critical Path's meta-directory solutions, we're helping companies do that today. And we're providing them with a stable foundation on which to build additional value and functionality in the future." About Telecom Italia Lab Telecom Italia Lab is the company of the Telecom Italia Group whose mission is to promote and manage innovation, developing new technological solutions for the ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT. (2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL. 1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test. market and investing in emerging technologies. Its strong point is its consolidated experience in the Research and Development sector in combined action with the market prospects of the entire Telecom Italia Group. The main areas range from fixed network to optical transmission networks, from last generation mobile networks to multimedia and voice applications, from ICT security to system on chip. About Critical Path, Inc. Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTH) is a global leader in digital communications software and services. The company provides messaging solutions -- from wireless, secure and unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. to basic email and personal information management -- as well as identity management solutions that simplify user profile management and strengthen information security. The standards-based Critical Path Communications Platform, built to perform reliably at the scale of public networks, delivers the industry's lowest total cost of ownership for messaging solutions and lays a solid foundation for next-generation communications services. Solutions are available on a hosted or licensed basis. Critical Path's customers include more than 700 enterprises, 190 carriers and service providers, eight national postal authorities and 35 government agencies. Critical Path is headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . More information can be found at www.criticalpath.net. Note to Editors: Critical Path and the Critical Path logo are the trademarks of Critical Path, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their holders. |
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