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Plumtree and Oblix Team to Deliver Federated Identity Management
for Portals
Plumtree to Resell Oblix COREid and SHAREid to Simplify and Reduce Cost of
Managing Large-Scale and Inter-Organization Access to Portals
CUPERTINO, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Oblix, the leading
developer of identity-based security solutions, and Enterprise Web leader
Plumtree Software (NASDAQ:PLUM) today announced an expanded alliance including
a broader reseller agreement and continued technology integration. Plumtree
will now resell the Oblix SHAREid federated identity server and the Oblix
COREid(TM) suite for Identity Management and Web Access Control. Plumtree and
Oblix will co-host a Web seminar on federated identity management for portals
on July 14 with registration at http://www.plumtree.com/04/oblix .
Plumtree and Oblix are making it simpler for customers to address the identity
management and access security issues that arise as organizations expand their
portals to include customers, partners and suppliers. Using Oblix's federated
identity management capabilities, Plumtree customers can cut the costs and
risks of managing large customer or partner portals.
"Organizations are driving increased business value from their portals by
creating secure connections with external resources and users," said Craig
Roth, vice president of technology research services for META Group. "To
realize this value, organizations need a robust identity management
infrastructure that permits delegation of administration. In this way,
organizations can keep security high without assuming additional administrative
responsibilities and costs."
Organizations that want to connect with trusted partners and customers can get
these links up and running quickly, easily and inexpensively with a Plumtree
portal and the Oblix SHAREid federated identity server. The solution provides
for
Faster application deployment -- Organizations can use SHAREid to quickly
connect user identities to external Web-based applications, allowing
seamless user access via existing portal logons. For example, employees
could easily be linked up to externally hosted applications for booking
corporate travel or managing HR benefits, and use their same portal logon
to access those applications.
Easier partner collaboration -- Organizations can use SHAREid to allow
customers and partners to access information and applications on their
portal without assuming responsibility for managing and updating customer
and partner user profiles. For instance, a manufacturer can give its top
suppliers' employees access to product specifications in its portal, and
have the suppliers manage all of the users according to policies set in
advance by the manufacturer.
By keeping responsibility for user identity management with the organization
that employs the users, customers can ensure that security is up- to-date
regardless of changes to individual users. SHAREid facilitates these seamless
interactions by exchanging security assertions between two parties' security
systems, in effect forwarding a security assertion that automatically logs
employees into the appropriate remote system.
"Identity management, particularly identity federation, is a top concern of
enterprises deploying large-scale portals and portals for collaboration with
trusted partners and customers," said Gordon Eubanks, CEO, Oblix. "Plumtree and
Oblix are building upon our long history and close integration and making it
even easier for customers to lay the security foundation that is critical to
truly successful e-Business."
Customers such as Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA), a government agency
providing IT solutions for healthcare providers in Ontario, are already
realizing the benefits of Plumtree portals with identity management powered by
Oblix. "COREid made it possible for SSHA to easily deliver a cost-effective,
customized self-registration process which will manage physician access to the
various systems available in our Plumtree-powered physician portal," said Linda
Weaver, SSHA Chief Technology Officer. "With Plumtree and Oblix, physicians
will have simple, secure access to multiple applications delivered through the
portal for maintaining electronic health records, sharing lab results, viewing
patient records and interacting with clinical management systems. The
integration of Plumtree and Oblix technologies forms the basis of the SSHA core
products which deliver IT solutions to healthcare providers in the province of
Ontario."
"An increasing number of our customers need to share portal application data
with customers, partners and suppliers," said Plumtree's CEO John Kunze. "We
have airline customers that need to collaborate with their suppliers, and
government agencies that need to collaborate with each of the different armed
forces. Through our alliance with Oblix, we can help customers grant user
identity management to these trusted parties in order to build their own secure
worldwide Web."
Visit the Plumtree-powered physician portal from Smart Systems for Health
Agency ( http://www.ssha.on.ca/ ) at https://www.ontariomd.ca/
About Oblix
Oblix Inc. is a leading developer of identity-based security solutions for
managing business in a connected world. Based on a service-oriented
architecture, Oblix solutions include rich Identity Management functionality
and provide access control with single sign-on to enterprise applications. By
giving companies a central means to securely connect users to applications, and
applications to each other, inside and across corporate boundaries, Oblix
reduces the cost, complexity, and risk of sharing user identities with business
partners. Oblix provides an enterprise wide security architecture that enables
companies to separate identity from applications, which can lower costs and
administration effort, and federates external applications and users for
enhanced compliance and security.
Global corporations such as American Airlines, AXA Financial, British Airways,
Carlson Companies, CEMEX, the Chicago Board of Trade, Country Companies,
Farmers Group, General Motors, Hitachi, Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Norsk
Hydro, Northern Trust, Old Mutual, Southwest Airlines, Stanford University,
Tellabs, US Bank, the United States Postal Service, Wachovia, Washington
Mutual, and many more rely on Oblix solutions. Oblix investors include Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, Apax Partners, General Motors, Van Wagoner Capital
Management, Cisco Systems, Intel 64 Fund, Focus Ventures, Credit Suisse First
Boston, and JP Morgan. With offices in North America and Europe, Oblix is
headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., and can be reached at 408-861-6800.
About Plumtree Software
Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create
a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across
the enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's
Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources
from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as
collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications,
and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences.
Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution
to span rival platforms and systems, helping maximize customers' return on
their existing technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen
countries, Plumtree has licensed over 600 customers, including Boeing, Ford
Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit
Plumtree on the Web at http://www.plumtree.com/.
NOTE: Oblix Inc., the Oblix logo, and Oblix COREid are trademarks of Oblix
Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product and company
names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned
for identification purposes only.
Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its
subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and
unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their
respective owners.
Courtney Hohne
Oblix, Inc.
408-861-6715
Carilu Dietrich
Plumtree Software
415-399-7047
DATASOURCE: Oblix Inc.
CONTACT: Courtney Hohne of Oblix, Inc., +1-408-861-6715, or
; or Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047, or
Web site: http://www.plumtree.com/
Web site: http://www.oblix.com/