Imanami Delivers Next-Generation Identity Management Solutions

Imanami Delivers Next-Generation Identity Management Solutions

Imanami Enables the Improvement of the User Experience and Internal Communications While Reducing Administrative & IT Costs

LIVERMORE, Calif., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Imanami today announced the availability of the Imanami solution WebDir 3.1. Imanami delivers the next generation of identity management point solutions by providing global enterprises and their employees control of their user information and distribution lists at the departmental and divisional levels, enabling the improvement of the user experience and internal communications while reducing administrative and IT costs. This allows companies and their employees to rapidly build accurate knowledge about their operations and employees from information across the enterprise and to promote stronger employee relationships required to succeed in a rapidly changing competitive environment.

With quick implementations, Imanami customers such as KRAFT, Cendant, and CNA have achieved a rapid time to value as a first step on their path to an overall Identity Management strategy.

"Improving our employee and internal communications has been a long standing business objective," says the Manager of Network Services for a $16 billion telecommunications company. "Our operating departments are very busy, so finding a 'user self-service' directory management product that allows employees to update their own information, elect what distribution lists they subscribe to, and find other employees was critical as a first step in our overall Identity Management strategy."

"Today, enterprises are looking for identity management solutions that deliver to the bottom line of their business. Organizations often require tactical solutions that will enable them to achieve a rapid return on investment," said Nick Nikols, analyst at Burton Group.

"To win in today's business environment, companies must build communications bridges among all those involved in creating a successful business: the individual employees, different operating departments and global divisions. Companies must strive to improve internal communications to a level that provides the right information to the right person at the right time. This outcome is dependent on identity management that is accurate, speedy and efficient," said Robert Haaverson, Imanami President and CEO. "For many industries, communications cycles are being compressed and complicated as companies expand through acquisitions. In this changing atmosphere, operating departments such as IT and human resources face new pressures to allow employee self service for their address books and distribution lists. The streamlining and automating of critical identity management processes is key to cost-effective management of operations and resources while at the same time improving the user experience and internal communications."

"Overall, our goal is to improve employee communications and reduce the associated operational costs at the same time: a challenge given our complex and changing operations. Now that employees can access and update their own information by simply opening a browser, everyone is happier," says the Messaging Architect of the largest wireless company in the United States, with more than 46 million subscribers.

Next-Generation Identity Management Solutions

The Imanami WebDir 3.1 release represents the benchmark for the next generation of identity management solutions as a way to improve the user experience and internal communications while reducing administrative & IT costs.

A few of the new and unique features included in this product release:

-- NEW! -- Support for Active Directory without Exchange 2000/2003
Active Directory Only Support -- User accounts, contacts, distribution
list, or groups -- no longer require they be mail or mailbox enabled in
order for WebDir to create, search and manage objects within the
directory
-- NEW! -- Support for entire Active Directory forest with just one
virtual server
One WebDir virtual server is all you need when working in an Active
Directory multiple domain environment. WebDir will allow all users
within the same forest to log in, search, create, and manage objects
that exist in separate domains
-- NEW! -- Extended photo support
Rules can be used to join users to their pictures. Now you can specify
a rule that defines where photographs reside. For example, you can tell
WebDir 3.1 that all photographs are stored in the c:\photo directory
and which attribute (alias, username, etc.) in the directory to use in
order to pair the right photo with the logged-on user. Also, photo
support will perform automatic resizing to ensure the picture meets the
size limit specified



The Imanami solution is available immediately. Businesses can purchase the complete set of Imanami solutions or select individual applications to meet their specific requirements. For additional information, please contact the Imanami sales organization at 1-800-684-8515 or send an email to: sales@imanami.com

About Imanami

Imanami provides simple yet powerful point solutions for Identity Management including:

-- SmartDL for automated distribution list management
-- SmartR for directory and exchange reporting


-- Directory Transformation Manager for data integration, transformation, and synchronization

-- WebDir for user self-service for GAL updates via the web

Imanami, a Microsoft Gold Partner, has nearly 400 customers from every industry, including: Cingular Wireless, Rubbermaid, SAIC, Mentor Graphics, the U.S. Department of Energy, Panasonic and even Microsoft.


Source: Imanami

CONTACT: Sean Schantz, Director of Imanami, +1-925-273-2914

Web site: http://www.imanami.com/


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