Press Releases: Vancouver - February 22, 2007
Sxip Identity Delivers On-Demand Identity Management for Google Apps
Single Sign-On and LDAP Integration for Google Apps Enhances Enterprise Control, Security, Productivity
VANCOUVER, BC - February 22, 2007 Sxip Identity today announced the availability of Sxip Access for Google Apps. The only identity and access management solution for Google Apps™, Sxip Access extends the access privileges, security policies and manageability of the corporate network to the online world.
More specifically, Sxip Access ensures additional:
- Control - maintain centralized user control by tightly integrating with existing corporate directories, increases IT efficiency and reduces management costs
- Security - instantly create, modify or revoke user access to Google Apps, protects critical data and mitigates risks from unauthorized access
- Productivity - seamless access to Google Apps with no additional usernames and passwords, improves user experience, promotes application uptake and utilization
The Google Apps™ service brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations using their own domain name. With Google Apps, users can use tools like Gmail™, Google Calendar™, Google Talk™, and Google Docs & Spreadsheets™ on their own domain to stay connected and work together more effectively. Best of all, it's all hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software to download, install or maintain.
“Google Apps will profoundly alter how individuals retrieve, share and manage business-critical information. This will offer tremendous cost and productivity benefits. Sxip Access provides extended options for addressing specific security needs while ensuring that access to Google Apps remains intuitive to enterprise users,” said Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO, Sxip Identity. “Similar to the successful relationship we’ve had with salesforce.com, we’re looking forward to working closely with Google in providing a seamless and safe experience for their users.”
"We’re excited to have Sxip Identity as a partner in the Google Enterprise Professional™ program. The single sign-on and centralized user management that Sxip Access offers is a natural complement to Google Apps, providing ease of access for users and peace of mind to IT,” said Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead, Google Enterprise.
“Our staff will love the convenience of Sxip’s single sign-on to Google Apps, which like our internal applications, is accessed with their corporate username and password. Our IT team likes that with Sxip Access they’ll be able to easily get our 100 plus users setup and managed all from our Active Directory, thus being able to centrally control users all from one database,” said Mike Tagner, IT Operations, Bio-Botanica, Inc. & Nature's Answer, Inc.
“With the rise in popularity of on-demand "desktop" applications hosted by external service providers, enterprises have a growing challenge of provisioning and maintaining access to a wider array of applications,” said Gerry Gebel, Vice President and Service Director, Burton Group. “Therefore, enterprises should consider how to incorporate Software-as-a-Service solutions into their identity management infrastructure to satisfy security, efficiency, convenience, and reporting needs.”
Sxip Access for Google Apps is available either as a hosted service, an appliance, or software; offered as a low, yearly, subscription-based price, with an optional pre-configured appliance for an additional flat fee. Sxip Access supports Google Apps Premier and Education Editions as well as other popular ASPs including Salesforce and Postini. Contact Sxip at 1.866.978.3500 or sales@sxip.com for a complete list and for pricing.
About Sxip Identity
Sxip Identity is the market leader for Identity 2.0 an internet-scale approach to identity and access management that is simple, secure and open. Sxip provides on-demand identity management solutions for the enterprise and user-centric solutions that securely automate the exchange of identity data on the web. For more information please visit http://sxip.com, contact
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