Press Release
Press Release
FISCHER'S LATEST IDENTITY SUITE RELEASE FURTHER LEVERAGES
THE POWER OF THE ONLY NEXT-GENERATION IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE
Fischer's ETL Integration Platform and Holistic Design Sets
New Standards for Rapid Creation and Deployment of Customer-Driven
Features
Naples, FL (May 31, 2006) -- Fischer International,
thought leaders in Identity Management, today announced the
immediate availability of Fischer Identity Suite™ Version
2.3, adding significant new benefits that further speed and
simplify the task of identity administration while reducing
its cost and complexity. The wealth of features included in
the Version 2.3 release is attributed to Fischer's holistic,
SOA-compliant Identity Management architecture built on an Extract-Transform-Load
(ETL) integration engine; the springboard for rapid and reliable
product development.
Setting a New Standard for Rapid Feature Development
and Deployment
Fischer Identity Suite Version 2.3 builds on the strong foundation
of Fischer's industry-leading architecture, and is the result
of both Fischer's extensive enterprise expertise and commitment
to listening to the needs of customers and partners.
"Our decision to build a next-generation Identity Management
solution from the ground-up is validated every day by customers,
partners, and analysts," said Steve Tillery, Fischer's
SVP and CTO. "One year ago, we demonstrated how our technology
set a new industry standard for speed and ease of identity administration
and provisioning deployment. Now on Identity Suite's first anniversary,
we've demonstrated how our technology enables us to innovate
and deliver new capabilities that businesses need, and with
unprecedented speed, quality, and reliability. Our Version 2.3
'dot release' represents only six months of development work
yet includes more significant features than most competitors
have released in the past three to five years."
Changing the Face of Identity Management: Delegated
Deployment to Non-Technical Users
The initial release of Fischer Identity Suite revolutionized
Identity Management by enabling enterprise-wide IdM deployment
without requiring highly-skilled resources. Fischer's Version
2.3 takes the next step by enabling deployment and administration
tasks to be delegated to non-technical users such as Business
Analysts, shifting the focus from "implementing identity
technology" to "implementing business processes."
Fischer's Business Policy Manager and Self-Service Studio are
two such Version 2.3 innovations.
- Business Policy Manager transforms role and group management
into a business-friendly, intuitive process for defining how
user entitlements and resources are provisioned to users in
compliance with business and privacy guidelines. Business
Policy Manager provides the granular capabilities needed to
create policies and membership rules for target systems that
precisely control "who should have access to what,"
yet is designed for non-technical users. Business processes
are implemented entirely through a Point & Click interface,
and users do not need to know resource naming conventions
for every system. Business Policy Manager offers a variety
of other benefits, including dynamic group/role discovery
and presentation, Point & Click Separation of Duties,
and "provisioning grace periods" that enable organizations
to deprovision a class of resources immediately upon the occurrence
of a business event while leaving other resources intact for
an extended period.
- Self-Service Studio enables organizations to deploy self-service
provisioning requests and approvals, but without the time
and cost of workflow programming or HTML page creation. Self-Service
Studio includes out-of-the-box web pages that can be easily
branded and customized to each organization's requirements
using any HTML editor such as Front Page or Dreamweaver, and
provides a graphical, easy-to-use interface for mapping workflow
attributes to Web form elements. Users simply view the form
in Self-Service Studio, choose the appropriate workflow, and
then use the Point & Click interface to map workflow attributes
to input fields, radio buttons, checkboxes, and other user-selectable
web page elements that control workflow execution. Reliable,
customized self-service pages are created in minutes and without
any need for programming.
Identity-Related Compliance & Security: "Citius,
Altius, Fortius"
Fischer's compliance technology, iComply™, provides the
foundation for enterprise-wide audit and enforcement of identity-related
information. Version 2.3 builds on iComply's robust technology
foundation to enhance security and compliance to "Olympic"
performance levels.
- Compliance Dashboard enables administrators and auditors
to quickly assess a provisioning environment. Policies and
entitlements are automatically analyzed to identify exceptions
and their causes, and can then be tracked for remediation
or annotated to record the rationale for the exception.
- Enhanced Compliance Attestation Assessment / Reporting enables
organizations to "know," not "assume,"
if user entitlements across all connected systems are in compliance
with business and privacy policies. In real-time, Fischer
discovers and compares the actual accounts and entitlements
on connected systems with the organization's business and
privacy policies. Excessive permissions, unauthorized accounts,
orphan accounts, and other policy conflicts are identified
for thorough analysis and fast remediation. An organization's
compliance position can be measured in real-time, or for any
date range after initial deployment.
- High Privilege Account Management (HPAM) meets the extra
security and compliance requirements of regulated industries
such as banking, securities, and oil & gas by eliminating
the most common challenges of working with high privilege
accounts. HPAM provides additional control, auditing, and
compliance for administrative accounts for any system, and
includes a complete audit record of exactly who can perform
administrative functions and when, and who approved their
privileges.
Availability And Demonstrations
Fischer Identity Suite Version 2.3 is available immediately.
Product demonstrations may be requested by contacting Fischer
International at 239-643-1500 or visiting www.FischerInternational.com.
Hands-on demonstrations are also available at the following
upcoming industry events:
2006 Gartner IT Security Summit
*Platinum Sponsors
5-7 June 2006
Washington, DC
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Booth 111
2006 Burton Group Catalyst Conference
*Hospitality Suite Sponsors
Wednesday, June 14: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Hilton San Francisco
Yosemite A
About Fischer International
Fischer International was founded in 1982 by Addison Fischer,
a security visionary whose many accomplishments are recognized
globally. Headquartered in Naples, Florida, Fischer International
has a distinguished history of innovation and thought leadership
in the security industry. Fischer continues this tradition by
being the first to deliver the next-generation of Identity Management.
The solution, Fischer Identity Suite, is built upon DataForum™,
Fischer’s standards-based provisioning, approval, and
compliance engine. By design, the engine is an integration technology
as Fischer recognized that integration is the lifeblood of enterprise
Identity Management. Additionally, compliance is organically
incorporated throughout because compliance must be part of the
DNA in any Identity Management solution. Like all Fischer solutions,
the Fischer Identity Suite will stand the test of time. For
additional information, please visit www.FischerInternational.com
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Media Contact:
Dennis McDermott
Chief Marketing Officer
Fischer International
(239) 643-1500
dmd@fischerinternational.com
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