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Tivoli Policy Director From IBM Provides Secure Access Management Across Business Ecosystem Applications

Support For WebSphere, SAP, Plumtree, BroadVision And BEA Software Enables Comprehensive Security Policy Management

AUSTIN, TX--(INTERNET WIRE)--Oct 24, 2001-- IBM today unveiled enhanced Tivoli software that enables organizations to secure access and manage security policies across a broader range of business ecosystem applications.
Out-of-the-box support for WebSphere, SAP, Plumtree, BroadVision and BEA software is offered in the latest version of Tivoli Policy Director, offering traditional enterprises and e-businesses secure, personalized portal, customer relationship management and other e-business solutions that extend across the business ecosystem to customers, suppliers, partners and employees.

Tivoli Policy Director is the standards-based secure access management software that allows organizations to control wired and wireless access to business ecosystem applications, letting the right people in, while keeping unauthorized people out.

Business ecosystems may assume the form of business portals, business-to-business exchanges, peer-to-peer business models, private, public or vertical industry e-Markets, procurement systems, corporate or consumer portals, customer relationship management (CRM) systems and other extended business applications.

"Security should not hold organizations back from realizing the promise of a connected e-business--where customers, suppliers, partners and employees have access to their applications through desktops, Web browsers or wireless devices," said Arvind Krishna, vice president of security products, Tivoli Software, IBM Software Group. "With Tivoli Policy Director organizations can extend their secure e-business as their customer, partner and employee base increases."

Tivoli Policy Director now includes Web single sign-on and authorization functionality for leading portal and CRM applications such as BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise(TM), the Plumtree Corporate Portal, the IBM WebSphere Portal Family and mySAP.com(R). Additionally, Tivoli Policy Director supports Java applications built on both IBM WebSphere Application Server and BEA WebLogic(R).

Tivoli Policy Director is also helping organizations secure other parts of their business ecosystem by supporting public key infrastructure solutions from Baltimore Technologies and Entrust, Inc., as well as popular wireless protocols such as the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and i-mode.

Pricing and Availability

Tivoli Policy Director 3.8 is currently available worldwide. Pricing is based on the number of users and the volume of licenses purchased. Support for the products listed above is included.

Tivoli Policy Director 3.8 is available in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.

About Tivoli Software from IBM

Tivoli software from IBM enables an IT organization to reduce the total cost of ownership and improve service levels of the IT infrastructure. Tivoli systems management software helps traditional enterprises and e-businesses worldwide manage security, storage, performance and availability, and configuration and operations. Backed by world-class IBM services, support and research, Tivoli software is one of four key IBM Software Group brands -- DB2, Lotus, Tivoli and WebSphere. For more information, visit www.tivoli.com.

IBM, Tivoli, and Tivoli Ready are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation or Tivoli Systems Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both. Other company, product, and service names may be the trademarks or service marks of others.

Note to Editors: For the latest Tivoli software news and event information, visit our online pressroom at www.tivoli.com/news.

Comments Swaison, general manager, WebSphere Software, IBM Software Group

"Tivoli Policy Director offers the most comprehensive authorization and single-sign-on solution for both WebSphere Application Server and the WebSphere Portal Family. Tivoli and WebSphere developers have worked together this year and delivered the first seamlessly integrated secure access management solution that requires no additional security J2EE coding to build security into business ecosystem applications."

Media contact: Tim Breuer, 914-766-1711, [e-mail]

Hilary Jones, director of alliances, Plumtree

"Tivoli Policy Director can manage access to all the enterprise applications integrated via Gadget Web Services in Plumtree's personalized and community portal pages, offering joint customers a comprehensive single sign-on solution via the portal. This new supportis more convenient for portal users and more secure for administrators, and it helps reduce deployment efforts and costs for our mutual customers."

Media contact: Laura Nusbaum, 415-399-2545, [e-mail]

Raj Rao, senior vice president of product strategy, BroadVision (Nasdaq: BVSN - news)

"BroadVision customers can now effectively manage security policy across their self-service e-business applications using this new support in Tivoli Policy Director software. Having a consistent security policy across personalized applications is key to building trust across your employee, customer and partner base."

Media contact: Janine Kromhout, 650-261-5940, [e-mail]

John Kiger, director of marketing, E-Commerce Server Division, BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS - news)

"BEA and Tivoli are working together to offer customers comprehensive security policy enforcement for enterprise e-business applications. With Tivoli Policy Director, organizations can manage access to applications and resources deployed on the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, providing the highest level of security across the business ecosystem."

Media contact: Mary Erickson, 605-325-3286, [e-mail]



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