Courion Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for User Provisioning

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Courion(R) Corporation, leaders in access management and compliance, today announced that the company is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Gartner's Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning report(1).

In the Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning report, Gartner states, "User provisioning continues to mature, delivering value for business requirements to make identity-focused security operations more efficient, and to comply with business-driven regulatory and legal reporting and auditing."

"We believe that Courion's position in this year's Leaders Quadrant is a result of our product innovation, growing customer base and strong new partnerships," said Chris Zannetos, president and CEO, Courion. "Our philosophy is that successful customer implementations coupled with our placement in industry reports such as Gartner's Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning report, further validate our ability to deliver real business value."

Courion's software solutions help results-driven companies automate the manual processes associated with user provisioning and managing access rights to IT resources based on corporate policy. Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite solution automates the manual practices associated with tasks such as user provisioning, role management, access compliance and password management, to optimize user productivity, strengthen security and enforce policies. It includes specific modules that can be implemented separately or as part of the full suite, and is considered highly flexible and customizable, without requiring new infrastructure investments or lengthy implementation and consulting work.

For a copy of the Gartner 2008 User Provisioning Magic Quadrant, compliments of Courion, please go to: https://www.courion.com

About Courion

Courion is the Enterprise Provisioning and Access Compliance Expert for results-driven organizations. Built on market-proven technology, Courion's software solutions streamline operations and automate business processes to simultaneously achieve cost, security and service quality results. Courion's innovative approach eliminates the complexity and barriers to provisioning and compliance adoption, resulting in an unparalleled track record of customer success. Courion recently achieved a perfect score in SC Magazine's 2008 Identity Management Group Test and was recognized as a Network Products Guide 2008 "Hot Company." For more information, please visit our website at https://www.courion.com.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted August 2008 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Courion is a registered trademark. Enterprise Provisioning Suite is a trademark of Courion Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

    (1) Gartner Research, "Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning" by Earl
        Perkins and Perry Carpenter.  August 15, 2008.
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