Evidian, the European identity and access management leader, announced today that Butler Group has raised the ranking of Evidian’s IAM Suite in its latest “Technology Evaluation and Comparison Report for Identity and Access Management”.

Published in December 2008, Butler Group’s full report is a comprehensive analysis of the identity and access management marketplace, and includes a detailed comparison of the major players. Evidian is one of only two vendors to increase its ranking in Butler Group’s global Market Lifecycle Ratings, rising into the Consider category.

“IAM Suite has evolved to become fully featured, with core components that cover the key areas of role, identity and access management” says Andy Kellett, Senior Research Analyst, Butler Group.

“We recognize as very valuable the progress that has been made in integrating an impressive range of federation capabilities into the suite, and this sits well alongside the solution’s differentiating capability for collecting existing user accesses and the actual accounts on the systems, and reconciling them with business role-based policies”.

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Evidian IAM Suite is a comprehensive software solution that lets organization manage identities, roles and accesses using a coherent foundation. Enterprises deploy modules progressively, with a concrete return on investment at each step. With IAM Suite, each management domain is synchronized with all others using reconciliation processes, resulting in organizational security and efficiency. Regular verifications of user accounts and accesses ensure full compliance with the corporate security policy.

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