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To: Don Dodge who wrote (331)	1/7/2000 3:07:00 PM
From: PeterR1700	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 369

Don - I wish I knew more about nete and market share etc. One thing that encourages me is they've opened offices in Europe and Asia suggesting a global play. Peter don't know encommerce.

To: Don Dodge who wrote (331)	2/25/2000 11:05:00 AM
From: biznotech	Respond to of 369

Customers'-Eye View of NETE Crossroads A-List Awards for E-Business Infrastructure Announced January 31, 2000 Netegrity, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE), SiteMinder Wins "Personalization and Access Management for Extranets and Portals" Business Benefits E-businesses must present a cohesive Web presence to an ever-growing number of customers, partners, and employees. SiteMinder lets developers provide personalized information and secure access to e-commerce Web sites via the corporate Web portal. With grass-roots developer popularity, SiteMinder is ideal for large, decentralized corporations, even those growing by acquisition. It provides a single sign-on across multiple, independently maintained Web sites and applications. Organizations define security privileges centrally; the divisions assign these privileges to individual end users. Technology Highlights In a dynamic Web environment, decentralized companies must be able to quickly and easily integrate different business units' applications into the company?s single Web presence. Implementing access-control systems for each application or Internet domain allows business units to retain autonomy but creates a negative experience for users, who must log into each application separately. SiteMinder allows centralized authorization of user access to Web sites, while application development remains decentralized. Providing single Web sign-on to all servers across Internet domains, it gives developers fine-grained access control to Web resources (e.g., objects within pages) and personalization of navigation paths through role-based distributed access. With native integration to standard directories and delegated policy management, user lists need only be administered once. SiteMinder offers high availability and redundancy and scalability to high-user counts. SiteMinder 3.6, shipped August 1999, includes cross-domain single sign-on, PKI CRL support, location-based policies, and improved performance and scalability. Customer Comments Netegrity customers include Fortune 500 companies that are building portal sites and extranets and ISPs building the infrastructure to host Web applications for large organizations. These businesses are all very diverse; some are highly decentralized. They want to achieve an ergonomic, consistent, secure presentation of corporate information to customers, suppliers, partners, and employees. In so doing, they aim to achieve better organizational synergy in the face of a heterogeneous environment. Netegrity customers have used SiteMinder to develop portal applications for customers, suppliers, and staff. Customers say the single sign-on capability and personalization have improved service, reduced frustration, and increased use of Web applications. Users of one firm?s customer service extranet now serve themselves in minutes rather than waiting hours or days for a call-back. Businesses are using SiteMinder to centrally authorize access to applications developed by divisions or groups maintaining different Internet domains. Hosting companies in particular cannot impose a structure on their customers. One hosting company is supporting an extranet for one of the largest firms in the United States. Its suppliers are transacting e-business across multiple divisions, each of which maintains its own IT infrastructure. Time to market is critical to e-business success, and SiteMinder consistently wins accolades from developers for productivity and ease of use. Customers report great success in integrating new Web front ends with multiple in-house-developed legacy applications. One ISP reports it has reduced application development time by an average of three weeks. SiteMinder is proven to support very high user counts. One firm has rolled out an application in which user access is determined by membership in one of 300 groups. Another has rolled out 12 applications developed with SiteMinder. The secret to these large implementations is to keep the rules simple and elegant. Customers say SiteMinder is well-suited for mission-critical environments. It allows built-in redundancy through support of multiple policy servers and provides a solid, transparent fail-over capability. A delegated user management facility is important to Netegrity customers. One company is using SiteMinder to define policies for centralized systems, and has enabled business units to authorize their external users. Customers are excited about Netegrity?s product roadmap in this area. Netegrity customers are strategically committed to the use of LDAP directories as a core infrastructure service and say the company is closely tracking this moving target. Because of their size and diversity, Netegrity customers typically have a variety of authentication mechanisms in place. If your organization has multiple Internet domains and multiple authentication domains, don't hesitate to bring Netegrity consultants in during the planning phase. Consultants are also helpful if you intend to bring packaged line-of-business applications into the LDAP security scheme. Rating: A. This rating is based on the experiences of Fortune 500 companies and ISPs that are using SiteMinder to define a user control and access management framework for Web applications spread across multiple Internet domains. All customers plan significant expansion of their Web environment and their use of SiteMinder for more customized access. -###- Source: The Crossroads A-List Award Program recognizes technology companies whose products or services meet two key criteria: they address today?s most critical business priorities (determined by primary research with business decision makers); and they are newly proven to deliver real business results to customers in the field (determined by a second round of primary research with installed customers). crossroads-osa.com.

To: Don Dodge who wrote (331)	2/25/2000 11:08:00 AM
From: biznotech	Respond to of 369

Customers'-Eye View of enCommerce Crossroads A-List Awards for E-Business Infrastructure Announced January 31, 2000 enCommerce, Inc., getAccess Wins "Personalization and Access Management for Global E-Business Portals" Business Benefits To conduct global e-business or support global brands, companies must present a consistently friendly face to Web users. getAccess enables Web developers to intelligently direct visitors through resources spanning multiple product lines and organizations. It provides a single secure means to give Web users personalized access to all appropriate information. getAccess helps the most security-conscious companies to build and manage multinational e-business portals that support local languages and scale to support very large user counts. Technology Highlights Businesses need to make it easy for Web users to directly access corporate information and applications while ensuring personalized information is available only to authorized users. To conduct business worldwide, they must be able to create Internet domains that span multiple locations and support different languages. They require performance, scalability, and easy maintenance to manage millions of users. getAccess provides single sign-on to multiple applications and allows companies to define unique user profiles that provide customized navigation paths to authorized information. Centralized management and delegated administration make it fast and easy to give new users personalized access or to modify current users' access. It scales to support very high user counts with automated registration and self-service profile management. getAccess supports multiple languages and the creation of domains that span multiple countries. getAccess 3.2, shipped August 1999, features multidomain support, increased performance and scalability, and support for authentication and authorization using LDAP. Customer Comments enCommerce customers fall into two primary groups: Global 2000 companies in financial services, telecommunications, and high-tech manufacturing and ambitious dot coms. Established companies are under competitive pressure to leverage core assets through business portals. The growing importance of e-business has intensified their already strong focus on security. Dot coms are trying to establish new brands and gain a first-mover advantage in vertical markets. Both must maximize customer value through cross-selling and up-selling. Companies are using getAccess to make the customer or partner (not the product groups, the org chart, or the existing web stovepipes) the focal point for managing the business. getAccess implementers report that the single sign-on boosts their Web constituents' confidence and satisfaction. This is particularly important in Europe, where consumers are risk-averse and security conscious when considering e-commerce. getAccess has allowed developers to create a unified environment for Web users and to lay the foundation for more sophisticated profiling and cross-selling. To date, enCommerce customers have used getAccess primarily to define their authorization infrastructures and to integrate authentication. With their initial implementations in place, they are beginning to use the customer profiling capabilities. One manufacturing company has built an extranet site that defines eight different groups of users, each with customized navigation across nine different applications. Several financial services firms have rolled out their first products, such as online banking or insurance, and are creating profiles to cross-sell other products such as brokerage. enCommerce customers are using the multiple-language support to establish Web infrastructures that can be easily extended across geographic boundaries. Corporate extranet implementations are furthest ahead in globalization, but brand-focused portals are catching up. One UK-based firm is looking to expand across Europe, introducing new services that are tailored for each market but accessible through a single portal. A U.S. firm will reach European customers. Organizations appreciate getAccess for its straightforward implementation, manageability, and ease of rolling out new applications under a consistent architecture. Customers report application rollouts in months, not years, and administrative headcount is minimal due to distributed delegation. Scalability is critical for enCommerce customers, many of whom plan to scale their sites to support millions of users. They report no performance degradation related to getAccess as their sites have grown and are comfortable with the robustness and failover of the underlying Oracle technology. Today?s user counts range up to 800,000 users. One firm has load-tested its site with up to 2 million users with no performance impact. Another is deploying an application targeted at a group of 12 million customers. Implementing getAccess requires programming resources who understand security. Customers report success transitioning personnel from the mainframe or SAP environment, where roles-based security is commonly used. Rating: A. This rating reflects the experiences of Global 2000 and industry-leading dot-com companies. They have used getAccess to build, secure and manage global portals with individualized navigation menus across multiple domains, which they plan to leverage with sophisticated customer profiling. -###- Source: The Crossroads A-List Award Program recognizes technology companies whose products or services meet two key criteria: they address today's most critical business priorities (determined by primary research with business decision makers); and they are newly proven to deliver real business results to customers in the field (determined by a second round of primary research with installed customers). crossroads-osa.com. PS: Winners (many, like enCommerce, are not yet public) and their reference customers, will appear at the Crossroads 2000 Conference, March 12-15, 2000.