According to industry research firm IDC, 80 percent of new commercial enterprise apps will be deployed on cloud platforms in 2012. Meanwhile Forrester Research predicts that by the end of 2012, cloud customers will already be using more than 10 different cloud apps on average. This wide scale adoption of cloud services and the migration of users and critical data into the cloud is creating access control, single sign-on, integration and audit challenges for organizations – all of which are addressed by the Symplified Cloud IAM service.
“In 2011 we saw massive adoption of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) as companies of all sizes were moving to the cloud to become more nimble, efficient and roll out new applications quickly. What they realized was the lack of and need for identity and access management capabilities to enable a range of users including employees, customers and partners to securely access cloud, Web and mobile apps,” said Eric Olden, CEO and founder of Symplified. “In 2012 we see convergence – the seamless combination of identity across platforms and mobile devices creating breakthrough user experiences – as the big theme. Our investment of more than $20 million into the Symplified platform and especially in access control, mobile IAM and Symplified ONE for workgroups enables organizations to take advantage of this convergence with rapid to deploy, centralized and easy to manage security for all their Web apps and data.”
2011 Highlights
• Revenues increased nearly 300 percent year over year • Adoption was up more than 300 percent with more than 3,000,000 licensed users • Both blue chip enterprises like HP, Blue Shield, BMC Software, CSC, Forest Laboratories, Moody’s, Zurich Insurance and rapidly growing companies such as Zynga, Netflix, American Hospital Association, Design Within Reach, Elan Pharma, and Dolby Laboratories and many others rely on Symplified for cloud identity • Expanded into Europe and Asia Pacific, and opened new regional offices in North America • Developed first Cloud IAM solution to secure iPad, Kindle Fire, iPhone, and Android devices • Introduced Symplified ONE – the easiest, fastest to deploy and lowest risk entry-level solution for cloud identity • Made major automation, performance and reliability enhancements to Symplified Trust Cloud™ on Amazon. Trust Cloud made available in Japan, Asia Pac and Europe • Named a SINET 16 Innovator. The SINET Showcase is supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate • Named AlwaysON Global 250 Top Private Company • Selected by Network World as Cool Tool for Cloud Management • Named Top 20 Cloud Security Vendor for 2011 by CRN • Finalist at the RSA Conference Most Innovative Company Showcase • Completed integration with leading OpenStack platform management vendor Cloud.com (now Citrix) • Established strategic partnerships with CSC, Cipher Cloud, IC Synergy, GCA, iRise and Solstice
About Symplified | The Cloud Identity Company
Symplified provides seamless identity and access management across cloud, web and mobile apps used by employees, partners and customers. The company protects more than 3.8 million identities for customers in the healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and telecommunications industries. Its Symplified service unifies access management, federated single sign-on, auditing and user management across any access device. Symplified can be delivered securely either on-premises or in the cloud via the Symplified Trust Cloud™ which is hosted on the global, massively scalable Amazon Web Services platform. The Symplified ONE offering scales from workgroups of 50 to the Fortune 500 offering the simplest, rapidly deployed cloud IAM offering in the market. The company has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal, CRN, Network World, the RSA conference, and others for its innovations. Symplified’s management team created web access management market originator Securant and the ClearTrust product, which was acquired by RSA Security. The company has received financing from leading venture capital firms Granite Ventures and Allegis Capital. Symplified is headquartered in Boulder, Colo. Visit us on the web at www.symplified.com.
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