North Sydney, Australia May 12th, 2004: Agreon, Australia’s leading independent systems integrator specialising solely in Identity Management today announced that it has successfully completed a cross region Federated Identity deployment.

The deployment, the first of its kind in the region, involved implementing cross-company single sign-on using SAML, for a large Australian Telecommunications firm and its parent organisation.

According to a Senior Business Owner with the Telecommunications organisation; “Protecting the identity of our users while facilitating a seamless SSO experience for customers across partner organisations, is essential to our success. This solution allows us to delegate authentication of the user to the relevant partner organisation, therefore removing the issues associated with maintaining this information. We have successfully simplified the process of signing on to multiple sites while still preserving users privacy and security.”

Brian Brannigan, Managing Director of Agreon on the initiative – “Federated identity has become one of the most important e-business drivers today because of the many competitive advantages it provides. The key benefit is the customer centric branding of an aggregated network spanning multiple geographies. Federation was the natural next step in their Identity roadmap, proving greater business agility while making the organisation easier to do business with.”

Agreon is Australia's leading independent systems integrator with a sole focus on Identity Management. Headquartered in North Sydney, Australia with regional offices in Dublin, Ireland, Agreon has an enviable history of client satisfaction delivered with its unique blend of systems integration, security and business process experience. Through its strategic alliances with Sun Microsystems, CA Inc, Oracle and others, Agreon has assisted many of the worlds Global 1000 organisations across Australasia, the Middle East and Europe realise the potential of end-to-end Identity Management implementations.

For more information on Agreon and its services, please visit www.agreon.com or call +612 99298932.