Passlogix Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for 2007 Enterprise Single Sign-On Magic Quadrant
September 6, 2007 — New York, NY; Passlogix®, Inc., developer of the widely adopted v-GO Sign-On Platform for enterprise single sign-on (ESSO), announced today that it has been positioned in the leaders quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Single Sign-On, 2007” report released by Gartner, Inc., on August 30. The report evaluates 14 vendors that provide ESSO tools for password management. The full report can be accessed here.
Quadrant positions were established based on each vendor’s ability to execute and completeness of vision. Criteria included the vendor’s product/service, overall viability, sales execution/pricing, market responsiveness and track record, customer experience, market understanding, sales strategy, offering/product strategy, business model, vertical/industry strategy and geographic strategy.
The report defines leaders in the ESSO market as vendors that “show a consistent ability to gain new customers in broad industries and geographies, and at the higher end of the quadrant, have very good to excellent customer references, products that easily or very easily integrate with target systems, and a commitment to rapidly provide the product updates their customers want.”
“This has been a strong year for Passlogix. We have secured major new v-GO adoptions both through our channel partners and our reseller agreements with IBM and Oracle, we reached an agreement with RSA that will allow their ESSO customers to transition to v-GO as they phase out RSA Sign-On Manager, and we sold our 6 millionth v-GO license. That means that we nearly tripled our user base in one year,” said Marc Boroditsky, Passlogix president and CEO. “We consider our positioning in Gartner’s ESSO leaders quadrant to be a culmination of our exclusive 11-year focus on single sign-on as well as our approach to ESSO as a linchpin of the overall identity infrastructure.”
ESSO products are designed to help enterprises reduce help desk calls, administrative overhead, user inconvenience and potential security breaches associated with the use of multiple application passwords. They also support identity-related compliance initiatives.
The v-GO Sign-On Platform is built around v-GO SSO (v-GO Single Sign-On®), which automatically and securely signs the user into any number of Windows, mainframe or Web applications after a single network logon without additional identification and authentication processes. The platform also includes five add-on products that extend v GO’s single sign-on capabilities to any form of strong authentication and to kiosk environments; enable all identity provisioning systems to automatically inject user credentials into v-GO SSO; permit self-service reset of forgotten Windows passwords; and centralize management of strong authentication devices.
Enterprises frequently deploy v-GO before implementing identity management or two-factor authentication because v-GO can go live quickly and seamlessly integrate with all major identity management systems as well as any combination of smart cards, badges, proximity devices, tokens or biometrics. v-GO can be deployed on existing servers without adding dedicated or proprietary hardware, scales to support organizations of any size, and is used in enterprises around the world with 6 million licenses sold.
Read the full report: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Single Sign-On, 2007.
About The Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Passlogix
Passlogix® is the developer of the v-GO Sign-On Platform, the market's most robust, scalable and easy-to-deploy enterprise single sign-on platform with successful installations in hundreds of organizations of all sizes and in all industries around the world. The company's patented intelligence-based technology eliminates lengthy and expensive implementation cycles, and provides rapid return on investment, by adapting to any existing infrastructure without the need for custom coding or replacement of legacy hardware or software. Founded in 1996, Passlogix is headquartered in New York City with sales offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Copyright ©2008 Passlogix. All Rights Reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. For more information please visit, www.passlogix.com.
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Michele Favaro
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