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Beta Systems is named as a leader in the “Identity Provisioning“ Leadership Compass of KuppingerCole Analysts
June 2014 by Marc Jacob
Beta Systems is named as a leader in the latest Leadership
Compass “Identity Provisioning” of KuppingerCole Analysts. They confirm that Beta Systems
SAM Enterprise Identity Management Suite supports a broad range of platforms, with
exceptionally strong support for mainframe environments. Over the course of the last few years,
Beta Systems has enhanced its functionality significantly, partially by adding components
acquired or licensed from other vendors. According to the analysts, Beta Systems has managed
to integrate these functions quite well and is making a lot of progress in the area of usability. Beta
Systems also has started adding enhanced Access Governance and Intelligence functionality.
Support for role management is rated as strong, based on long experience. Besides this, the
analysts see Beta Systems as one of the few vendors offering connectors with tight application
integration, allowing applications to request authorization decisions at runtime and thus enabling
Dynamic Authorization Management as an integrated feature.
Beta Systems is named as “Overall Leader” as well as “Product Leader”: “Overall Leaders” are identified
based on a combined rating, looking at the strength of products, the market presence, and the innovation
of vendors. Beta Systems can build on a strong customer base and mature products. Product Leadership
is the view where Kuppinger Cole looks specifically at the functional strength and completeness of
products. Beta Systems is providing mature solutions that are well-established in the Identity Provisioning
market according to the analysts. The SAM Enterprise Identity Management Suite is evaluated as a
standard Identity Provisioning product covering the classical features commonly found in that market
segment, like connectors to target systems, workflow functionality, and role management.
“The tight integration of all key components from provisioning to access governance and intelligence, the
multitude of out-of-the-box connectors to all relevant target systems and a well-proven implementation
methodology are the key reasons why Beta Systems’ IAM implementation projects are so successful”,
says Arne Bassler, Director Strategy & Communication at Beta Systems Software AG.
