Ping Identity Selected as a Top Software Innovator by Sand Hill Group

Business Wire, April 28, 2008

Leading Vendor of SAML and WS-Federation Based Secure Internet SSO to be Featured at Prestigious Software 2008 Conference

DENVER -- Ping Identity today announced that it is one of only fourteen companies to be showcased as a leader in technology innovation at Sand Hill Group's influential Software 2008 conference, which takes place this week in Las Vegas. Andre Durand, Ping Identity founder and chief executive officer, will speak during the Innovation Showcase and share why over 200 worldwide companies have deployed PingFederate, the company's secure Internet Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions.

"We are proud to be recognized by the Sand Hill Group for our leadership in helping define the future of software delivery and for our breakthrough technology," said Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity Corporation. "Secure Internet SSO plays an essential role in making Internet-based Enterprise 2.0 services such as Software as a Service (SaaS) and online collaboration both safe and easy for users to access."

"Ping Identity illustrates that innovation - even in an established market - is vibrantly alive and is successfully solving serious challenges in the software space," said M.R. Rangaswami, Sand Hill Group co-founder and Software 2008 executive conference director. "Ping Identity embodies the qualities and market momentum that we believe will drive a more useable software ecosystem."

To find out more about the Software2008 conference program, visit www.software2008.com.

About PingFederate

Through standards based identity federation, PingFederate provides an organization's users safe access to Internet applications without the need to re-login. Identity federation deployments that used to take six months or more now take days with PingFederate's easy-to-use comprehensive software. Over a dozen PingFederate integration kits enable first-mile integration, leveraging existing identity management infrastructure, and last-mile integration, providing scalable target application connections.

About Ping Identity Corporation

Ping Identity's dedication to delivering secure Internet single sign-on software and services for close to 200 customers worldwide has earned us recognition as the market leader in federated identity management. PingFederate, the world's first rapidly deployable identity federation software, provides organizations' users safe access to Internet applications without the need to re-login. With PingFederate and PingEnable--Ping Identity's expert support, services, and methodologies--external connections can be operational in less than a week. Download a free trial at http://www.pingidentity.com. For more information, dial toll-free 877.898.2905 or 1 303.468.2882, or email sales@pingidentity.com.

About Sand Hill Group

Sand Hill Group serves the $600 billion software, services and solutions market by providing investment and management advice to emerging enterprise technology leaders. Sand Hill also owns Sandhill.com - the premier destination site and resource center for CEOs, VPs, Entrepreneurs, VCs and for members of the software industry ecosystem. Its weekly electronic newsletter is read by thousands of executives. Sand Hill produces the 'Enterprise' and 'Software' conferences for CEOs and executives in the industry and creates high-impact research reports for its constituents.

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