Web Identity and Access Management at Your Business

Some corporate call centers spend as much as 60 percent of their time helping users to create accounts, figure out forgotten passwords and otherwise gain access to systems and applications. This support nightmare existed long before the Internet gained popularity, but has been amplified by the Internet's success.

Both Goldman Sachs and IDC believe that the market for identity and access management (IAM) is still in a nascent stage, with web single sign-on and user provisioning being two of the fastest growing product categories in software. According to their research, which queried 100 CIOs about their IAM spending plans, the IAM market is viewed too simplistically and has significant upside, especially considering the myriad of web servers deployed in divisions, subsidiaries and business units of the Fortune 1000, state and local government agencies and other organizations.

With applications migrating to web-based platforms and service oriented architectures, CIOs are expected to allocate a larger portion of their budgets toward IAM. IDC estimates web single sign-on will grow to $1.2 billion in revenues in 2008 from $497 million in 2003, a 19 percent five year growth rate. User provisioning is expected to grow to $710 million in 2008 from $260 million in 2003, a 22 percent growth rate.

What's driving the growth in web identity and access management?

Your business needs to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the networked economy. But not at the risk of loosing valuable data, or exposing confidential applications and information to untrusted eyes. Web identity and access management is about much more than simply setting up a database of users and defining rules. It's about using security technology to streamline your business model, expedite development and increase efficiency. It's about lowering costs and establishing closer, more responsive relationships with your customers, suppliers and partners.

Cafésoft can help you to define and implement your web identity and access management security strategy. We bring to each project a wealth of experience along with our web access management platform, Cams, and its companion identity management product, Cams Identity. By analyzing your requirements, we can enhance, extend and customize Cams and Cams Identity to meet the needs of your business.

The end result? While building customer and partner loyalty, you increase satisfaction by improving process and efficiency, ensure web application security by centralizing management, and lower the actual dollar costs of implementing and maintaining web security.