Market Innovator Defines Program that Utilizes Key Partners' Domain Expertise
to Simplify Delivery of Identity Management Solutions by Converting Services
Into Software
NEW YORK, RSA Conference 2005, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Thor Technologies,
the most experienced and proven provider of identity management solutions for
enterprise provisioning, today announced the launch of its Resource Adapter
Certification Program (RACP). The RACP addresses the problem of integrating
identity management solutions with customers' heterogeneous infrastructure by
converting integration tasks that would otherwise be delivered to clients as
professional services into software components called resource adapters. The
RACP provides a range of services to customers and consulting partners,
including Xellerate resource adapter development training, developer support,
development templates and best practices, consulting services, and online user
group forums. This enables Thor's customers to more fully leverage the value
of Thor's partners' intellectual property, greatly reducing the cost and
complexity associated with Xellerate-powered identity management deployments.
Initial RACP partners include MphasiS and Wipro, and Thor expects to expand
the program with additional certifications in the second half of 2005.
Partner certification within Thor's RACP is based on a set of criteria
measuring a partner's proficiency in resource adapter development and
deployment that results in customers' successful implementation of identity
management solutions. The requirements for partner certification include:
operating a state-of-the-art lab and development facilities; running the
latest version of Xellerate, adhering to software development best practices;
demonstrating availability of instances for specific target resources; and
maintaining personnel with Xellerate deployment and Adapter Factory
experience. By extracting value from its unparalleled partner ecosystem, Thor
enables its customers to benefit from the intellectual property of its
partners through a reduction in implementation costs, ready access to a
substantially increased set of resource adapters, and the ability to customize
these adapters. These resource adapters reduce the risks of implementation
and enable Thor and its partners to deliver a credible, best-in-class identity
management solution. For more information about the RACP, please visit
http://www.thortech.com/solutions/solutions_xell_certprogram.asp.
"We are pleased to partner with Thor as a premier RACP partner," said
Mohan Krishnan, president and group CTO, MphasiS. "Our goal is to assist
clients in innovating and streamlining their business processes by offering
custom solutions for technology and operations outsourcing. Security is
becoming an even more important component of our go-to-market strategy, and
Thor's thought leadership provides us with a conduit for converting existing
expertise into tangible customer value. Our role in developing and supporting
Thor Xellerate resource adapters meets both our own business objectives and
benefits our customers as they deploy identity management solutions."
K.R.Sanjiv, the vice president of Wipro's E-enabling Division said,
"Through deep domain expertise and robust knowledge transfer systems, we
ensure that we understand our customers' needs well. By partnering with Thor
and getting certified under their Resource Adapter Certification Program, we
are able to aid customers to deploy provisioning solutions rapidly for a wide
variety of enterprise systems, thereby streamlining user management and
control processes effectively and enabling them to raise productivity levels."
"Thor understands the difficulty of managing who has access to what across
the disparate and heterogeneous IT infrastructure that our customers
increasingly rely on and we are taking proactive steps to ensure that they can
successfully deliver their identity management initiatives," said J. Alberto
Yepez, chairman and CEO, Thor Technologies. "The strength of this program is
attributable to the foundation built on our unparalleled partner eco-system.
The establishment of certified best practices for the development of Xellerate
resource adapters benefits our valued customers, as they are able to obtain
significant return on their investment by integrating numerous and often
disparate resources."
About Thor Xellerate Identity Manager
Thor's industry leading product, Xellerate, serves as the foundation for
the RACP. Xellerate addresses several key information assurance challenges
associated with identity management, including the ability to securely manage
the complexity of multiple user identities, efficiently distribute and
maintain accuracy of identity data, and manage the business processes around
approval of user privilege requests.
About Thor Technologies, Inc.
Thor Technologies is the most experienced and proven provider of identity
management solutions to Global 2000 enterprises and public sector agencies.
Thor's leading-edge customers, blue chip partners, and its own team of domain
experts create a security and compliance solution of unparalleled value.
Thor's Xellerate(R) Identity Manager is the most comprehensive identity
management solution for automating compliance and eliminating security risks
by managing "Who Has Access to What" across the enterprise. Thor counts
Barclays Plc, HBOS Plc, Lehman Brothers, MphasiS and Nextel Communications as
customers, as well as Accenture, BearingPoint, Booz Allen Hamilton, BEA
Systems, Oracle Corporation and RSA Security as partners. For more
information, please visit http://www.thortech.com, or contact the company at
info@thortech.com, +1 (800) 274-8467 in North America and +44 (0) 1932 268 456
in the United Kingdom.
NOTE: Thor Technologies, Thor, the Thor logo, Thor's Xellerate Identity
Manager and Adapter Factory are trademarks of Thor Technologies, Inc. All
other brands, products, service names, trademarks, or registered service marks
are used to identify the products or services of their respective owners.
SOURCE Thor Technologies, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Kerstin Anderson for Thor Technologies, Inc.,
+1-510-708-8765, or th@trainercomm.com
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