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Nov 6, 2007

Berlin, 6 November 2007 – In the recently published 'Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning 2H07', Gartner puts Beta Systems Software AG in the 'Challengers' quadrant. According to Gartner, “Challengers have solid products that address the typical needs of the user-provisioning market, with strong sales, visibility and clout that add up to higher execution than niche players.  Challengers are good at winning contracts, but they do so by competing on basic functions or geographic presence rather than specifically on advanced features. Challengers are efficient and expedient choices to narrowly defined access problems or for logical partnerships. Many clients consider challengers to be good alternatives to niche players or occasionally even leaders depending on the specific geography or industry.” 1

Gartner assesses the share of User Provisioning within the entire range of security software to be at about 8.9 percent. Moreover, this analyst firm assumes that from mid 2007 about 20 to 25 per-cent of mid-sized to large companies worldwide - across all lines of business – have implemented a form of user provisioning. And another 25 to 33 percent at are currently evaluating potential so-lutions.

As Dr Martin Kuhlmann, Director of Product Management Business Line IdM at Beta Sys-tems explains, "We believe Gartner's report confirms the growing significance of User Provision-ing in risk management, and its importance for transparency and efficiency in enterprise-wide IT authorization management. Seen in terms of the most relevant product criteria featured in the survey, Beta Systems has a lot to offer. For instance, with SAM Jupiter and the new SAM Role Modeler, we provide comprehensive functions for complete Role Life-Cycle Management. In the auditing sector we've announced a new component, Beta 96 for Identity Audit, a solution that simplifies both cross-platform audits and in-depth system audits.“

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The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quad-rant 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. Gart-ner 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 in-tended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all war-ranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fit-ness for a particular purpose.

1 Gartner Research “Magic Quadrants for User Provisioning, 2H07” by Earl Perkins, Roberta J. Witty. August 23, 2007


Beta Systems Software AG - Agility Integrated
Beta Systems Software AG (Prime Standard: BSS, ISIN DE0005224406) develops high-profile software products and solu-tions for the secure and efficient processing of large data volumes. Beta 4Agility products are geared towards the business processes of companies and facilitate the automation of data and docu-ment processing, while taking account of Identity Management and ensuring compliance in corporate IT.

The company was founded in 1983 and has been listed on the stock exchange since 1997. Beta Systems employs over 600 people, mainly in the company's headquarters in Berlin as well as in the Augsburg, Co-logne and Calgary Centres of Competence. In addition, Beta Systems has 17 subsidiaries worldwide and cooperations with numerous partner companies. With more than 3,000 active installations, it has a customer base of more than 1,300 major companies from financial ser-vices, industry, trading, logistics and the IT ser-vice provider sector.

More information on the company and its products can be found at www.betasystems.com.

Company Contact:
Beta Systems Software AG
Thomas große Osterhues 
Senior Manager Marketing Communications 
Tel.: +49 (0)30 726 118-570
Fax: +49 (0)30 726 118-881
E-Mail: thomas.osterhues@betasystems.com 

Agency
HBI PR&MarCom GmbH
Anja Woithe, Alexandra Osmani
Tel.: +49 (0)89 99 38 87-27 bzw. -37
Fax: +49 (0)89 930 24 45
E-Mail: anja_woithe@hbi.de
E-Mail:alexandra_osmani@hbi.de 

 

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