Netegrity Announces IdentityMinder 6.0.WALTHAM, Mass. -- Provides New Flexibility for Managing Identities of Growing Populations of Customers and Partners Netegrity, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETE), a leading provider of identity and access management solutions, today announced the next major release of its Netegrity(R) IdentityMinder(R) solution. IdentityMinder Web Edition 6.0 provides enhanced flexibility, efficiency, and ease-of-use for managing user identities across business applications. This latest edition of IdentityMinder features support for relational databases relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. , a new Web service interface, and further flexibility for user management. IdentityMinder is a key component of Netegrity's comprehensive identity and access management solution, which includes user management, provisioning, access management, and Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. security capabilities. Reynolds and Reynolds, a provider of software solutions and services that helps automotive retailers manage their operations and improve profitability, is streamlining customer support through the use of Netegrity IdentityMinder 5.6. "Web-based customer services play a major role in our business," said Steve Kesler, Director of Information Security for Reynolds and Reynolds. "Netegrity IdentityMinder, overall, provides Reynolds with a flexible solution for managing the identities of thousands of employees within our dealership customer base. With Netegrity's technology, we've been able to cost-effectively offer those customers the ability to assign and manage secure 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. access to business applications within our Myreyrey.com portal." IdentityMinder enables organizations to improve overall security, reduce operational costs, and increase user satisfaction and productivity for Web-delivered applications. The new features of IdentityMinder 6.0 further streamline the process of managing users and provide enhanced flexibility to meet the needs of a wide range of business environments. New features in IdentityMinder Web Edition 6.0 include: --Relational Database Support IdentityMinder now delivers user management services such as self-service administration, workflow, delegation, auditing, and role definitions for organizations that use relational databases as their user stores. In addition to relational databases, IdentityMinder continues to support the administration of users in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. . This reinforces Netegrity's mission of providing a flexible solution that supports a broad range of IT infrastructures and enables organizations to better leverage their existing IT investments. --Web Service Interface IdentityMinder's new Web service interface and support of the Web Services Description Language “WSDL” redirects here. For other uses, see WSDL (disambiguation). The Web Services Description Language (WSDL, pronounced 'wiz-dəl' or spelled out, 'W-S-D-L') is an XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services. (WSDL (Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service. ) standard allows organizations to expose identity management tasks as Web services. This enables organizations to integrate user management tasks, such as create/modify/delete users, self-service, and forgotten password capabilities, into the organization's portal or expose them externally to partners and customers, while still leveraging the automated user administration services of IdentityMinder. This reduces development costs for the organization and provides a more consistent user experience. --Enhanced User Management Flexibility IdentityMinder automates the management of user identities, including group & organization memberships, role assignments, and profile attributes. With IdentityMinder 6.0 Netegrity has further streamlined the management of users with: - More flexible role model - Makes implementing roles easier by simplifying the creation, management, and delegation of roles. - Support for dynamic groups - Enables access to applications to be dynamically determined based on group membership. - Support for nested groups - Simplifies group management by capitalizing on hierarchical relationships in order to minimize the number of groups of users an administrator must manage. - More intuitive user interface - Provides a simplified experience for business users as the interface is based on the role of the user and the tasks they are allowed to perform. "As companies continue to expand their online initiatives, the number of external users, such as partners and customers, continues to grow exponentially ex·po·nen·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to an exponent. 2. Mathematics a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent. b. , presenting significant user management challenges," said Bill Bartow, Vice President of Engineering at Netegrity. "With IdentityMinder 6.0, Netegrity is taking identity administration to the next level by providing a solution that is not only flexible and robust enough to accommodate varying organization's needs but is also intuitive enough to make it easy for non-IT personnel to administer users." Comprehensive Identity and Access Management IdentityMinder is a key component of Netegrity's comprehensive identity and access management solution, which enables organizations to manage the identities of users, provision their use of corporate resources, and control access to those resources. In conjunction with Netegrity IdentityMinder Web Edition, Netegrity's provisioning component, IdentityMinder eProvision, extends Netegrity's user administration services to non-Web based systems, such as enterprise applications, email & groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. , operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , and database systems--further widening the set of users and managed target systems that can be part of the 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. enterprise identity management system. Netegrity provides solutions that can be implemented modularly to solve immediate identity and access management problems, while simultaneously providing infrastructure that can be incrementally extended to provide an enterprise-wide shared security service. Netegrity will be holding a two part Web seminar series which will feature speakers from Netegrity customers Reynolds & Reynolds and Sony Pictures as well as the Burton Group. During the seminars, which will be held on October 21st and 28th, the speakers will discuss business drivers, benefits, technical issues, adoption challenges, and best practices of deploying identity management solutions. To register, go to the events section of www.netegrity.com. Availability Netegrity IdentityMinder Web Edition 6.0 is expected to be available within 30 days. About Netegrity Netegrity, Inc. is a leading provider of security software solutions that securely manage identities and their access to enterprise information assets, letting business in while keeping risk out. Netegrity provides a comprehensive identity and access management product line for continuously evolving computing computing - computer environments, including legacy, Web, and service-oriented architectures See SOA. . Netegrity's flexible, standards-based offerings are designed to increase security, reduce administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. , and enable revenue enhancement revenue enhancement An increase in revenues, especially by way of increased taxes. Revenue enhancement includes reducing taxpayer deductions and eliminating tax credits. . Supported by a network of over 1200 trained integration consultants and over 300 technology partners, Netegrity solutions are licensed for more than 350 million users at over 850 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. For more information, visit http://www.netegrity.com. Netegrity, IdentityMinder, SiteMinder, TransactionMinder, and Universal Federation Architecture are trademarks or registered trademarks of Netegrity, Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. Various statements in this release concerning Netegrity's future expectations, plans, and prospects constitute forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. for the purposes of the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. 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