BEA Systems, Inc. and CA, Inc. have announced a partnership for identity and access management (IAM) across the enterprise.
The companies will jointly offer customers reduced IT costs and improved performance by combining Web single sign-on, user management, and SOA infrastructure.
The integration will be across the AquaLogic and WebLogic product families from BEA to CA's IAM technology, particularly CA SiteMinder and CA Identity Manager.
The two companies will validate the existing integrations and collaborate to extend the integrations for their joint customers.
The companies plan to conduct interoperability testing and validations that can provide customers with improved performance and reliability.
Under the agreement, BEA and CA plan to authenticate and further extend integration between CA SiteMinder and BEA WebLogic and AquaLogic technologies, while also collaborating on identity and access management standards.
CA will include WebLogic Server Premium Edition evaluation license with CA Identity Manager as the application server of choice for CA IAM technology
The companies will implement marketing and sales programs to communicate the value proposition of their joint solutions to current and prospective customers and proactively team together on customer opportunities.
Bilhar Mann, senior vice president and general manager of CA's security management business unit, said, "With the ongoing trend of abstracting identity and security logic from the underlying applications, integration between CA's IAM solution and BEA's application infrastructure will offer customers the flexibility and control they need to deliver a new generation of value-added services across the extended enterprise."
Wai Wong, executive vice president, products at BEA Systems, said, "Identity and Access Management is critical within SOA as applications become increasingly distributed. CA and BEA together can enable customers to benefit from reduced administration costs of their security architectures, as well as provide increased IT efficiency and better business agility through their application and SOA infrastructure."
