The Evidian vision

Evidian, a subsidiary of Groupe Bull established in July 2000, is an Independent Software Vendor company that enables customers to successfully deploy secure business and telecommunications strategies. Specialized in security and service management software and based in Europe, near Paris, Evidian has more than 650 customers and 70+ partners. Evidian has 200 employees worldwide, with research and development, sales and marketing operations plus distribution channels in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Evidian vision and solutions

The pervasive increase of Internet computing, next-generation telecommunications technology and the net-business economy is challenging organizations worldwide to develop new operational strategies for sustained profitable growth. Evidian's secure management products and services help customers do business with full confidence in this new networked world, by helping them to increase business effectiveness, reduce costs and increase IT operational integrity.

Evidian software notably helps organizations to deploy a united, global security policy and service level management capability, through independent but seamlessly integrated security and management software suites - mainly the Evidian IAM and OpenMaster suites, plus other software solutions.

• Identity and Access Management: Evidian IAM Suite helps corporations deploy a comprehensive identity management and access control policy for both web and legacy environments. It provides organizations with a single point of administration, enabling customers to streamline the deployment of security policy and consistently enforce it across the Internet, Intranets and Extranets, while dramatically decreasing security management costs and increasing enterprise agility, user productivity and regulatory compliance. Features notably include virtual policy management, approval workflow, user provisioning, identity synchronization, dynamic access control and SSO across all environments, from legacy to web/J2EE.
  Evidian is recognized as the European leader in Identity and Access Management, and one of the five leading players worldwide.
• IT and Telecom Service Management: Evidian telecom and application service assurance solutions deliver enhanced business process and service level management capabilities for telecom players and enterprises, with a single-console management view of business applications and their underlying network resources. It therefore helps large organizations to better define, deliver and manage a desired level of service to internal and external end users.
  In the telecom field, Evidian also provides a unique foundation for service providers to develop customer-centric service assurance management for their next generation of OSS (Operation Support Systems). Evidian IT and telecom service management features includes quality of service monitoring, load balancing and failover, intelligent correlation, alert management and service level agreement reporting.

In addition, Evidian provides customers with a full complement of product-related support and professional services to help them ensure the success of their enterprise security and management project. Specific services include consulting, implementation, education, and training.

Evidian Enterprise SSO

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The shortest path to Single Sign-On

Evidian Enterprise SSO is a solution for the step-by-step deployment of secure Enterprise Single Sign-On.

Evidian Enterprise SSO's capabilities are delivered through complementary secure components that can be combined to provide the required features.

By combining multi-factor authentication with a plug-and-play Single Sign-On solution, you can replace all the passwords (the user's greatest headache) by a digital signature based on a certificate, smart card, USB key, or simply a fingerprint. Access to enterprise applications can be authorized according to corporate security policy, as defined through your LDAP directory.

Benefits for your business >>

• Reduced help-desk costs
• Increased user satisfaction and productivity
• Security policies and corporate governance

Features >>

• Plug-and-play single sign-on
• Extended management of access rights
• Multi-factor strong authentication
• Smart card management
• Emergency access via primary password and PIN code reset
• Mobile E-SSO for employees
• Fast User Switching

The Evidian difference

Evidian's products were designed from the ground up using a business-process-oriented, integrated and modular architecture, thus offering comprehensive, scalable, easy-to-manage and easy-to-deploy solutions with rapid time to value. They provide rapid business benefits and ROI by enabling the deployment of a step-by-step and integrated approach to identity and service management. As a result, organizations are better able to operate their key business processes and respond to change with speed, flexibility and control.

Evidian's technology has been recognized by numerous awards from InternetWeek, Computergram, Data Communications, NetWork Computing, SC Magazine and others. The value of Evidian software has also been praised by analysts from Burton Group, IDC, Forrester, Gartner, Meta Group, Yankee and other consulting companies.

More than 600 large customers

Evidian software is designed for large organizations in finance, government, telecommunications and manufacturing with complex, multi-vendor, multi-platform IT and telecom infrastructures, where security, scalability and availability are critical requirements. Hundreds of brand-name organizations worldwide have deployed Evidian software to secure and manage their IT and networks.

For more information about Evidian contact:

Wayne Donnelly - Evidian Channel Development Manager

T: 011 467 6000
F: 011 467 6001
E: wayned@nu.co.za