Press Release
Berlin / Brussels, 22 March 2010 – Beta Systems Software AG announced today that it held its first Identity Management Forum in Belgium on 18 and 19 March in the Hotel Metropol in Brussels. The event enabled customers and other interested parties to meet Beta Systems’ team of Identity Access Management (IAM) specialists. Participants included financial services, consulting, and manufacturing companies from UK, the Netherlands, Finland, Serbia and Slovakia as well as from Belgium. The forum’s main focus was to present the new generation of Beta Systems’ IAM solution, SAM Enterprise Identity Manager, for automating the administration of user access rights. The financial services provider BNP Paribas Fortis demonstrated how it uses the solution and the value it brings to the company. Jan De Blauwe, Head of Information Security and Risk Management, BNP Paribas Fortis, explains: “In 2009 we implemented Beta Systems’ Identity Access Management solution for automated user management to help us ensure data security, regulatory compliance, and – especially – to reduce our costs. Working towards achieving this, we were happy to accept the invitation to present our project at the Identity Management Forum. From our perspective, the event was a great success.”
The Identity Management Forum was the first Beta Systems event for Tuula Vaaranen, System Designer at the leading shipbuilding firm STX Finland Oy that recently signed a five-year software and service agreement with Beta Systems for their SAM identity access management solution. “The solutions are easy to integrate into our environment and easy to use. The IdM forum was a great opportunity for me to meet Beta Systems’ SAM specialists as well as network with other users and hear how they use SAM”, she says.
The forum also featured specialized presentations on the IAM solution’s individual functions, such as password management, role life cycle management, and integrated business workflows. The speakers emphasized the benefits an IAM solution can deliver in the current climate of increasing cost pressures, security requirements and compliance regulations. They also highlighted the importance of investment protection for the execution of the project itself.
Commenting on the event, Harald Podzuweit, General Manager of the DCI and IdM Business Lines at Beta Systems Software AG, said: “We were happy to be able to welcome participants from across Europe to our first Identity Management Forum in Brussels. This underlines the topicality of the issue on an international level as well as its growing importance. The misuse of access rights, compliance with regulatory requirements, and cost control affect all countries and organizations in equal measure.”
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Beta Systems Software AG – Agility Integrated
Beta Systems Software AG (Prime Standard: BSS, ISIN DE0005224406) develops high-quality software products and solutions for the safe and reliable processing of large quantities of data. The products and solutions serve to optimize processes, improve security and boost the agility of your IT. They help you meet business requirements related to governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) and make your corporate IT more powerful in terms of availability, scalability and flexibility.
The IT infrastructure software area (Infrastructure & Operations Management) of Beta Systems addresses data centers across all industries that want to optimize their job and output management. In addition, Beta Systems supplies companies with a large user base with products for automated IT user management. The ECM solution area (ECM & Document Solutions) of Beta Systems develops industry-specific payment transaction, incoming mail processing and general document management solutions for major companies active in the financial services, general industry and commerce sectors.
Beta Systems was founded in 1983, has been listed on the stock exchange since 1997 and employs a staff of more than 600. Company headquarters are located in Berlin. Beta Systems is an internationally active company with competence centers in Augsburg, Cologne and Calgary, as well as 20 affiliated companies and numerous partner businesses. More than 1,400 customers all over the world are currently operating over 3,300 installations with products and solutions from Beta Systems. About 50 percent of Beta Systems’ turnover is generated outside of Germany. Roughly 200 of the international customers are located in the USA and Canada.
For more information on the company and its products, visit www.betasystems.com.
Press Contact
Company Contact:
Beta Systems Software AG
Thomas große Osterhues
Senior Manager Corporate Communications
Tel.: +49 (0)30 726 118-570
Fax: +49 (0)30 726 118-881
E-mail: thomas.osterhues@betasystems.com
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Alexandra Osmani,
Alexandra Janetzko
Tel.: +49 (0)89 99 38 87-37/-32
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E-mail: alexandra_janetzko@hbi.de
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