Press Release
Copenhagen, December 12th, 2011
Metaconomy, the only provider of hosted Identity and Access Intelligence for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM 2010), this week released its self-service password reset tool for Metaconomy Compliance Reporter on Azure, kicking OpenID into touch.
“OpenID support through the Azure Access Control Service (ACS) is a great concept for managing non-critical low level applications where universal login from Google, Yahoo or Live ID is an acceptable level of security”, affirmed Richard Blackham, CEO at Metaconomy. “We surveyed our Beta customers and found their biggest concern was security and their lack of comfort with browser cached credentials when security compliance is the purpose of the application. We removed support for OpenID last week and released a self-service user name and password solution with support for lost passwords and password change. It took us ten days to write the tool for Azure. It’s our third self-service password reset tool in four years”.
Metaconomy Compliance Reporter displays normalized FIM 2010 data via a browser on subscription to users with relevant viewing rights. The data can be simple reports about users, groups and access rights, but could equally be security compliance audit-ready attestation reviews recorded over time.this data needs a higher level of protection. Metaconomy’s roadmap includes strengthening viewer access further with two-factor authentication and the return to ACS to support federation.
About Metaconomy
Metaconomy leverages the accessibility of the cloud to provide a highly available on-demand service focused on Identity and Access Intelligence. The securely managed flow of business critical information enables managers to make decisions based on accurate and current knowledge. Metaconomy offers customers a pathway to security compliance by optimizing their Identity and Access Management investments.
Contact
Metaconomy, CEO Richard Blackham, EMEA: +45 2075 7136 | USA: 1-925-639-7892
Hello@metaconomy.com
www.metaconomy.com
Title: winsec.be Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Reporting
Location: Microsoft Belgium Offices, Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3, 1935 Zaventem, Belgium
Description: “Implementing your Identity & Access solution with Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM 2010) is one thing. Getting reports and audits of it, is another.?
This session discusses and demonstrates some options you’ll have to setup reporting and audit on FIM 2010.
After a general introduction we will discuss the approaches.
Next we will shortly discuss the reporting features in FIM 2010 R2 (currently in CEP).
In the third part MVP FIM Craig Martin will show and demonstrate a FIM 2010 reporting solution based on powershell.
In the last part of the session, Richard Blackham from event partner Metaconomy will demonstrate live their cloud-based solution built for FIM.
This event will also be hosted via Live Meeting.
Details of the Live Meeting will be published a few days before the event.
(GMT +1)
Agenda
18h00: Doors open
18h00-18h30: Networking opportunity + food/drink
18h30: Start Event
18h30-19h00 Intro + reporting FIM 2010 R2
19h00-19h45: FIM 2010 reporting with powershell (by Craig Martin)
19h45-20h00: break
20h00-20:45: FIM 2010 Reporting with Metaconomy
20h45-21h00: Q&A
21h00-21h30: Networking
21h30: Close
Title: European Identity and Access Summit 2011
Location: Thames Valley Park, Reading, United Kingdom
Description: “Microsoft Identity and Access On-Premise and in the Cloud with FIM 2010 and AD FS 2.0″
In partnership with Microsoft and complementary technology partners, Oxford Computer Group (OCG) is again hosting the European Summit for Microsoft Identity and Access. This year the theme is “Managing Identity and Access on-premise and in the Cloud” with a focus on Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010, complementary technologies, including access and authorization with AD FS 2.0.
We’ll be exploring how FIM 2010 has matured since its launch 18 months ago and how organizations are putting FIM to use, investigating many real-world scenarios and current business challenges. We’ll also be looking at Cloud computing and how FIM 2010 and AD FS 2.0 support the management of users and the simplification of access as they move to Cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Office 365. Microsoft will also share with us their Identity and Access Management direction and roadmap for FIM 2010 R2.
Start Date: 2011-11-09
End Date: 2011-11-10
Press Release
Los Angeles, CA, July 11th , 2011.
Attendees at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 (WPC11) are learning about this year’s theme, “Winning Together”, and Azure cloud-based compliance reporting provider Metaconomy is showing them how.
Metaconomy has announced their innovative ‘Referring Partner’ model to make life easier for customer acquisition and management. “Metaconomy’s goal is to deliver the easiest possible experience for everyone, from customers to business line managers and support staff, but most especially for our partners,” says Wade Ellery, North American President for Metaconomy, “By doing this for our partners we have virtually eliminated all the overhead and administration effort of the traditional resale model.”
Metaconomy’s partners simply register themselves on the Metaconomy website and receive their unique Referrer Code. Whenever a referred customer registers for either the FREE 30 day trial or a full subscription for Metaconomy’s Cloud based Compliance Reporting for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM2010) service, the Referrer Code will link that customer to the partner. From that time forward all referral revenue generated by that customer from Metaconomy services is automatically credited to the partner’s Metaconomy account. The partner can review the status of their referred customers online, and may at any time request an electronic transfer of accumulated funds.
Metaconomy’s Compliance Reporting for FIM2010 delivers comprehensive current and historical reporting for FIM2010 in just a few minutes, without the need for heavy infrastructure investment or vendor integration services. Out of the box reports address the primary auditing and attestation requirements of most companies. The intuitive OpenID web interface built around the Azure Access Control Service, and the point and click reports, both deliver immediate value to business and technical users alike.
“Bringing the same streamlined approach we use in our award winning services to our Referrer Partner program has eliminated the overhead of managing client referrals. The reduction of investment in the sales cycle is critical to helping our partners maximize bottom line revenue for their referrals” says Wade Ellery, “With these improvements the Metaconomy referrer program delivers a good slice of our subscription based revenue stream to our partners at almost zero cost for the lifetime of the customer engagement. We have reached our goal of removing yet another barrier to adoption.”
About Metaconomy
Metaconomy provides an innovative web-based reporting platform with a simple self-service dashboard that delivers accurate and current business intelligence. Fast, easy and always available.
Contact
Metaconomy, CEO Richard Blackham, EMEA: +45 7070 2079 | USA: 1-800-747-0672, hello@metaconomy.com
www.metaconomy.com
Panorama Partners is a company specializing in business driven Identity Management. The company was founded in 2003. Panorama Partners offers consulting in the Identity and Access Management field and carries out IAM implementations together with is partners.
