24 August, 2005 - 8:49am

"A Web 2.0 company with a product that'll appeal to ultra-cautious corporate IT types. How cool is that?" Thanks Phil, we agree! Phil Wainwright with ZDNet discusses the Sxip Network and Sxip Access in his Software as Services column.

He states that Sxip Access offers a more palatable alternative to other options for on-demand identity management describing it as, "a prepackaged implementation that enforces consistent access security and keeps user data and access rights synchronized with the corporate directory. Rightly or wrongly, security worries have always been one of the trickiest objections for on-demand providers to overcome. The Sxip box should help reassure even the most security-conscious."

He describes the Sxip Network as "a far-sighted concept for effective identity management in a decentralized Web 2.0 world. It'll be great when it happens." We wholeheartedly concur and we're working on crossing that chasm...