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Agreon was founded in 2001 by pioneers of the Australian Identity Management industry, formerly with Access360 Australia (now Tivoli Identity Manager). Upon Access360’s withdrawal from Australia, Agreon was established to provide corporations with local independent Identity subject matter expertise and mature integration capability.

Agreon established a set of strategic alliances with best of breed pure play provisioning, web access control and directory services vendors. Through continued acquisition over the last several years the Identity Management space has evolved with the emerging market leaders providing broad all encompassing solution suites and a growing number of niche players.

The evolution of Agreon’s strategic alliances and growth has been closely aligned to the market consolidation and shift towards suite vendors.

• In October of 2002, Access360 Corporation was acquired by IBM
• In December of 2003, Waveset Technologies, Inc was acquired by Sun Microsystems
• In November 2004, Netegrity Inc was acquired by Computer Associates.
• In January of 2005, Calendra Inc. was acquired by BMC Software.
• In March of 2005, Oblix Inc. was acquired by Oracle
• In March 2005, OpenNetwork Technologies was acquired by BMC Software
• In November 2005, Octetstring and Thor Technologies were acquired by Oracle Corporation.

Agreon’s vision is to be the leading global supplier of comprehensive identity solutions, provided either directly or through strategic alliances. The overarching force to achieve this vision is to continually deliver with the reputation and intellectual property to satisfy the worldwide requirement to manage enterprise access at the speed of corporate change. Agreon continues to fulfil that vision assisting many of the worlds Global 1000 organisations across Australasia, the Middle East and Europe realise the potential of end-to-end Identity Management implementations.