Passlogix Exceeds 1 Million Users for Single Sign-On in Server-Based Computing Environments

Business Wire, Oct 23, 2006

v-GO's Reliability, Complete Platform Attract Citrix & Microsoft Thin Client Customers

NEW YORK -- Passlogix[R], Inc., today announced that it has sold more than 1 million licenses for its market-leading v-GO[R] Sign-On Platform[TM] to organizations for users in server-based computing environments, including Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server and Microsoft Terminal Services. Roughly one-fourth of the Passlogix license base uses server based computing for some part of their application access, reflecting v-GO's superior flexibility in supporting the technical challenges caused by thin client installations as well as v-GO's advanced support for strong authentication and other technologies that are critical to growing number of enterprise customers.

Passlogix's customer base ranges from organizations with a few hundred users to several of the largest companies in the world as well as customers with the largest server based computing farms. Many organizations have a subset of their applications hosted on a server-based infrastructure or may require external users to use server-based computing for all their access. Either way, successful ESSO deployment requires a solution that works equally well inside and outside of products like Citrix MetaFrame and Microsoft Terminal Services.

"Many ESSO deployments in server-based computing environments fail because of performance or scalability issues or because they fail to address requirements such as support for all data repositories, kiosks, strong authentication devices or identity provisioning systems," said Stephane Fymat, vice president of product management and sales operations for Passlogix. "v-GO is able to facilitate password management in these environments because of its low resource utilization, scalable architecture, broad IT infrastructure support, and comprehensive suite of products designed for seamless identity management."

"We have both Citrix and web-based applications, and we have used v-GO along with a web application access control system since 2003 to eliminate the use of multiple application passwords and other time-consuming sign-on procedures," said David Dully, Chief Technology Officer for Baptist Health, a five-hospital community healthcare provider in Northeast Florida. "v-GO's ability to operate reliably and efficiently with our Citrix MetaFrame server farm was critical to the implementation, and it has performed as promised."

The v-GO platform consists of six related products built around v-GO SSO([R]) (Single Sign-on), an advanced ESSO solution that automatically and securely signs users into enterprise applications, databases or accounts after a single network logon without requiring additional identification and authentication processes. This reduces the security gaps, administrative overhead, user frustration, and help desk calls associated with the need to remember and manage a different password for each application.

In server-based computing environments, v-GO SSO's benefits over other ESSO systems include an architecture that is optimized for low CPU and memory utilization, installation directly on the application server in order to fully automate server-side logons, the ability to track each user's identity in and out of a Citrix session to eliminate a user having to manually log on to both the Windows desktop and the Citrix environment, and other features that address the complexities of implementing ESSO with thin clients.

The five v-GO add-on products offer additional functionality related to strong authentication, identity provisioning, self-service reset of forgotten Windows passwords, and shared workstation and kiosk environments.

This additional functionality includes native integration with all leading smart cards, building access badges, proximity devices, tokens and biometrics; the ability of different methods of strong authentication to be used for different users and applications; out-of-the-box interoperability with all leading identity management systems for automatic insertion of user credentials into v-GO without any end user involvement; inclusion of an integrated credential management system for managing strong authentication devices; and automated Windows password reset.

The platform is easily implemented in enterprises of all sizes and can support sign-on to any type of Windows, mainframe or Web application without modification or significant implementation cost, overcoming the limitations of first-generation ESSO solutions.

About Passlogix

Passlogix([R]) is the developer of 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.