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Just like buses …

… you’re waiting for an identity management acquisition and then along come three at once. This time it’s IBM which has acquired 40-person, privately-held Encentuate. If you think that Ecentuate’s size is indicative of gap-filling motivations from IBM then you’d be right. The 7-year old company is a specialist in enterprise single sign-on (ESSO), which [...]

Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 by

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More acquisition activity in the identity space

Hot on the heels of last week’s acquisition of Credentica by Microsoft, Ping Identity (who I covered here in an On The Radar report) announced yesterday that it has acquired the Sxip Access business unit from Sxip Identity. Sxip was early to spot the potential opportunity in providing organisations with a simple, easy-to-deploy single sign-on [...]

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