First Identity and Entitlement Management Suite Built On a Business Process Management Platform

DUBLIN, OH – Mar. 3, 2008

The Dot Net Factory introduced today EmpowerID™ Version 4.0, the latest release of its groundbreaking Identity and Entitlement Management suite. EmpowerID Version 4.0 is the industry's first Role-Based Entitlement Management solution and offers continuous compliance -- the ability to not only define, but to continuously enforce authorization policies across all enterprise identities, roles and resources. EmpowerID Version 4.0 is a .NET-based Business Process Management (BPM) platform that allows organizations to visually model and automate their identity management processes. With EmpowerID Version 4.0, organizations can definitively know who has access to any corporate resource, why access was granted, and when that access should end. Version 4.0 includes modules that extend its finegrained Entitlement Management and automated provisioning to many popular platforms and applications, including: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server™, Microsoft Exchange Server™, Active Directory, UNIX, custom applications, file shares and print shares, among others.

"EmpowerID Version 4.0 addresses the need for enforcing a consistent set of policies for identities, roles and resources across all platforms and applications in an enterprise," said Patrick Parker, Chief Executive Officer of The Dot Net Factory. "Its highly flexible BPM platform offers a code-free designer and a rich library of shapes to create powerful orchestrations that directly map to an organization's business processes and automatically adjust to changes in business systems. EmpowerID delivers effective Identity and Entitlement Management with lower costs, improved visibility, and better security."

EmpowerID's Entitlement Management features a flexible Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system that leverages your Active Directory, HR system, or other authoritative sources to assign application specific roles and to continuously enforce policies based upon a user's job function, a user's location in the organization. Coupling a user's entitlements to their business role and location within an organization based upon authoritative systems automates permission assignment and revocation across all of your directories and applications.

EmpowerID enables centralized role and rule-based authorization management, versus system by system permissions management. Its web-based, graphical console provides a single point of policy management, from which organizations can quickly and easily define and manage role definitions, role memberships and associated access privileges, for all types of enterprise resources and applications.

EmpowerID Version 4.0 includes Password Manager, Profile Manager, and Provisioning Manager to manage identities throughout the lifecycle process, including: creation, inventorying, enforcement, management, certification, and retirement. EmpowerID's Connect modules enable identity management for: Active Directory, LDAP, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, Unix, Oracle, and SAP. EmpowerID Role Enforcer Modules provide centralized entitlement management and enforcement for: Microsoft SharePoint, File Shares, Print Shares, Groups, Microsoft Exchange, Unix, Custom Applications, Oracle (release scheduled for Q2), and SAP (release scheduled for Q2).

BBC Worldwide has successfully implemented SharePoint Role Enforcer to automate SharePoint site access and new account request approvals with delegated and secure site administration. "Regional administrators in places like Mumbai, Sydney or Los Angeles can't wait for IT staff in London to come into their office in order to manage user accounts or control SharePoint access permissions," said Martin Oliver, IT Project Manager, BBC Worldwide. "To keep production moving forward, they need to know who has access to what immediately and model ever evolving identity requirements to BBC business processes."

EmpowerID Version 4.0's highly scalable BPM platform, built on Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation, incorporates a forward looking Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). EmpowerID sets a new standard for enterprise Identity and Entitlement Management platforms with its unparalleled level of control in modeling Entitlement Management around an organization's unique business processes.

The EmpowerID Version 4.0 Identity and Entitlement Management suite is now available. For more information, visit www.empowerid.com, or call toll free to (877) 996-4276.

With EmpowerID Version 4.0, The Dot Net Factory has pioneered a new breed of Identity and Entitlement Management platform that incorporates Business Process Management (BPM) built on Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation®. EmpowerID Version 4.0 features comprehensive Role-Base Access Control (RBAC) and a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with the ability to graphically design powerful orchestrations that centrally manage security across an enterprise. EmpowerID Version 4.0 offers complete identity lifecycle management including: provisioning, audit, password self-service, delegated administration, management, self-service, and compliance reporting. Stunning web interfaces, ease of use, accelerated implementation, and flexible customization of business processes, all drive rapid enterprise-wide adoption. The Dot Net Factory has over 275 installations of all versions of EmpowerID, and its customers include the BBC Worldwide, and many other internationally recognized corporations, governments and non-profits.

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