Momentum Grows as Cutler Hammer and Adelphia Cable Select
iPlanet Software for Centralized User Information Control
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sun-Netscape Alliance
(Alliance), a leading provider of e-commerce applications and Internet
infrastructure solutions, today announced the iPlanet(TM) Unified User
Management Suite, a complete solution for centrally managing user account
information in extranet and e-commerce applications. Powered by the iPlanet
Directory Server, the suite provides a single point of account control for
user profiles, access policies, preferences and security credentials such as
passwords and digital certificates across enterprise systems linked with
suppliers, partners and customers in the exploding Net Economy.
The Alliance today also announced that Cutler Hammer and Adelphia Cable
join a growing list of companies choosing iPlanet software for centralized
user management and underscores widespread customer momentum for Alliance
infrastructure solutions.
Designed to leverage a common user management infrastructure, the iPlanet
Unified User Management Suite enables rapid deployment of new web services,
differentiated levels of security, and reduced administrative costs of
managing user information in multiple directories. The suite bundles together
four infrastructure products with the iPlanet Directory Server, including
iPlanet Certificate Management System, iPlanet Meta-Directory, iPlanet
Delegated Administrator, and Netegrity SiteMinder, a third party policy
management server. The suite is priced at $15 per extranet user and is
expected to be available in October 1999.
"Customers are looking for a centralized solution for user management that
enables them to fully exploit the rapid proliferation of extranet and
e-commerce applications," said Stuart Wells, senior vice president of
infrastructure products for the Sun-Netscape Alliance. "With this new suite,
customers are able to make user management a more integral part of their
business and compete more effectively in today's Net Economy."
With the growth of today's e-commerce and hosting services, user
management has undergone a paradigm shift of scale and strategic value. User
management is no longer focused solely on employees, but also suppliers,
partners, distributors, customers and others through increasingly complex
Internet networks created to improve productivity, customer service and time
to market. Unified user management solves the problem of duplicate and
fragmented user information across ERP systems, e-mail, HR, security
applications, and web servers as a centralized repository of data that is
shared by all legacy and web-based systems.
The directory is the cornerstone of the iPlanet user management suite. It
also relies heavily on iPlanet Certificate Management System for public key
infrastructure (PKI)-based user authentication, iPlanet Meta-Directory for
joining and updating user information from disparate directories and
databases, iPlanet Delegated Administrator for customer self-service account
management, and Netegrity SiteMinder for user policy management and web single
sign-on.
The suite allows companies to dramatically simplify administration,
enabling such streamlined activities as one-click account creation and
deletion, automatic certificate issuance and revocation, and instantaneous
propagation of updated user profiles, policies and privileges across all
accessible systems. Alliance user management software is also proven to
handle the scalability, performance and 24x7 requirements of large extranet
applications -- Boeing, Bell Atlantic, American International Group (AIG) are
a few examples -- with directory support for more than 50 million users and
5,000 queries per second.
"Alliance user management software is core to the new infrastructure we
are building for our e-commerce business," said Chuck Webb, manager,
commercial systems at Cutler Hammer, a leading supplier of electrical control
products and power distribution equipment. "By leveraging the security
features and unified directory, it forms the backbone for managing our
electronic relationships with our distributors and suppliers."
"The Alliance's user management software gives us the flexibility to
redirect much of the account administration for our hosted messaging service
back to customers," said Ken Gianella, senior manager of internet services at
Adelphia Cable, a leading provider of cable TV and web hosting services. "As
customers are able to add, move and change e-mail accounts themselves, service
calls drop and this really helps the bottom line, for both them and us."
Additional information on the iPlanet Unified User Management Suite and
the Sun-Netscape Alliance is available at http://www.iplanet.com or by calling
888-786-8111.
About the Sun-Netscape Alliance
America Online, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. formed the Sun-Netscape
Alliance to provide easy to deploy, comprehensive enterprise and e-commerce
solutions and services to business partners and other companies competing in
today's Net Economy. The alliance product portfolio provides customers with
the industry's most scalable, integrated infrastructure software and a family
of production ready e-commerce applications. The products are offered on the
industry's most widely available product platforms, including DEC, HP, IBM,
Linux, SGI, Microsoft Windows, and Sun. The alliance software product
portfolio includes: messaging and calendar, collaboration, web, application,
directory, and certificate servers. The alliance also offers a family of
production-ready applications for e-commerce, including commerce exchange,
procurement, selling, and billing.
About America Online, Inc.
Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia, is the
world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and
e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet
services, America Online, with more than 18 million members, and CompuServe,
with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands
including ICQ and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM
portals; and the Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers. Through its
strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the Company develops and offers
easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies
operating in the Net Economy.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network is The
Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its
position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services
for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the
Internet. With more than $11.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found
in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
Netscape and the Netscape N logo are registered trademarks in the United
States and other countries of Netscape Communications Corporation, a
subsidiary of America Online, Inc. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo and
iPlanet are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and
other countries. Netegrity, the Netegrity logo, and SiteMinder are trademarks
of Netegrity, Inc.
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