North Sydney, Australia June 15th, 2006: Agreon, Australia’s leading independent systems integrator specialising solely in Identity Management today announced that it has successfully assisted a multinational Financial Services Institution, with over 25,000 employees, migrate from a proprietary/custom mainframe based identity system to a market leading Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) Web Access Control solution.

The basis for the initiative was the pressing need to address functional gaps identified within the existing system, highlighted by the necessity to satisfy evolving internal and external business requirements. Examples of the main business drivers include the need to provide a single of view of the customer; the demand for delegated administration, policy based fine-grained access control, as well as the drive for Sarbannes Oxley (SOX) compliance.

According to a Senior Business Manager with the Financial Institution "The ability to centralise and delegate administration, map and link the complex relationships between users, accounts, divisions, legal entities and applications, facilitating a single view of the ‘user’, will provide the foundation for Phase 2; obtaining the tick in the box for Sarbannes-Oxley compliance. Agreon’s willingness to go that extra step has provided a secure, scalable and robust system based on state-of-art identity management, authentication and LDAP technologies.”

Courtenay Randall, Senior Identity Architect from Agreon; “One of the key reasons for the success of this initiative was the strong executive sponsorship. The business focused approach, with extensive stakeholder involvement from the outset ensured that the project was a success. Agreon looks forward to assisting with the next phase on their identity journey.”

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.