SC Magazine 2007 Awards Winner

Best Identity Management Solution

Winner Information: Encentuate

Company

Encentuate, Inc.

How does this product or service answer the specific market need or application for which it was designed and is being nominated?

With an increasing number of applications and access paths, users access information from multiple end-points, including: personal or shared workstations, PDAs, kiosks, and home computers. This heterogeneous environment makes it hard for enterprises to provide a consistent access experience while maintaining good security and audit. Encentuate uniquely provides identity and access management (IAM) solutions that balance the requirements for security and audit with convenience by providing multiple capabilities at the end-points. ESSO across all end-points, authentication management with the widest choice of authentication factors, combined physical and logical access, user-centric auditing and reporting, and integration with best-of-breed provisioning systems.

How does this the product or service differ, significantly, from its competitors?

Encentuate's end-point IAM solution is a new approach; Encentuate extends IAM to the end-points while maintaining central administration. Key differentiators are:

Extends ESSO to provide automation of access and security workflows: enhances user productivity and compliance.
Leverages existing IT infrastructure without any modifications via end-point automation technology.
Widest coverage of end-points across: Windows, Citrix, Terminal Services, web/portals, thin-client devices, and PDA web access, ensures consistent access experience and tracking.
Comprehensive support of two-factor authentication devices, including: any personal device via Encentuate® iTag, building access badges, USB tokens, OTP, Active RFID, biometrics, smart-cards, and mobile phones

What are both the business and technical advantages to enterprises or SMEs investing in this product or service?

The solution provides the following business and technical advantages:

Enables enterprises to achieve security with convenience. Encentuate meets the above requirement by automating access and security workflows. This simplifies user experience while ensuring compliance; an ideal balance for organizations.
Minimizes risk and accelerates implementation by leveraging existing IT infrastructure. Encentuate does not modify existing IT infrastructure. Encentuate achieves this through end-point automation; automating interaction with applications, without any need for infrastructure change.
Provides a single platform with flexibility of choice to cater to diverse requirements and future growth. Encentuate provides the widest choice of end-point coverage and strong authentication devices

How has this product or service helped customers to meet/surpass customers' corporate budgetary expectations or show a sound business benefit and/or return on investment?

Encentuate delivers the following business benefits to our customers:

Identity assurance and protection of confidential corporate and personal information.
Regulatory and internal compliance via comprehensive auditing and reporting capabilities. Encentuate reduces the audit tracking costs by more than 75% as enterprises can centrally consolidate audit logs.
Improved employee productivity; Encentuate reduces time-to-information by more than 85%.
Improved productivity of IT administrators by eliminating 30-40% of helpdesk costs.

In summary Encentuate has a payback period of months instead of years and delivers and ROI of more than 1000% over a period of three years.