IBM Provides Customers Simpler, Faster Access to E-business Environments
Strengthens GSO Offering with Tivoli Plus Module, Smartcard Support and More
Austin, TX (July 22, 1998) – IBM today announced a new version of software that eliminates the need for people using multiple systems to sign on to each one individually — enabling secure access to all approved systems through a single sign-on.
IBM Global Sign-On Version 2 has new features, including the Tivoli Plus Module and smartcard support, that can strengthen enterprise security, simplify administration, and reduce users’ time spent logging on to various applications. With this new version, customers can reduce the time required to log into applications from 20 or more minutes to only a few moments. In addition, it provides a single point of entry to computing resources; reduces the security exposure generated by managing multiple passwords; increases the systems administrators’ productivity; and is available across leading operating system platforms.
“Strengthening and streamlining enterprise security is essential to becoming an e-business,” said Phyllis Byrne, vice president of Distributed Systems Services at IBM. “With about 70 percent of typical help desk traffic being related to password and/or logon problems, IBM GSO is expected to reduce those calls by 50 percent, enabling companies to reduce system management costs while ensuring a high level of security.”
Source: IBM