27 April, 2007 - 11:59am

IDC has just published a report examining how salesforce.com and its customer, Employers Direct, utilized Sxip Access identity management technology to provision/ deprovision new employees and to provide secure single sign-on (SSO) for the insurance company. Sally Hudson, research director for Identity and Access Management at IDC states, "For small and medium-sized companies, or for divisions of larger companies, software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and IAM-focused appliances are proving effective from both a security and a cost-effective perspective. Companies such as Sxip and salesforce.com are demonstrating that IAM technologies can be adopted and utilized for standards-based Web interactions and services."