Welcome to Conformity's October 2009 Newsletter

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Conformity Announces GA Release of First Enterprise Management Solution for SaaS and Cloud Apps

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the Conformity solution which provides customers the first enterprise-class management platform for cloud applications and users.  With our solution, enterprises can now be confident bringing new cloud applications into their business environments, knowing there will no longer be compromises made in the areas of management processes, insight and control.  With our GA, enterprises can:

• Increase data security and reduce compliance risks
• Optimize license allocation and expenses
• Automate and streamline administration
• Expand and extend enterprise usage of SaaS and cloud applications

Visit our website to learn more about our solution and how our initial customers are using Conformity to help them reduce the risk and cost of managing their multi-SaaS environments.

Read the full announcement here >>

Recap: The Enterprise SaaS Working Group

We had a very lively, engaging debate in the inaugural meeting of the Enterprise SaaS Working Group on September 30.  The group featured a diverse set of executive perspectives from cloud vendors, thought leaders and practitioners, and included:

• Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com
• Tom Fisher, VP of Cloud Computing, SuccessFactors
• Ryan Nichols, VP Cloudsourcing and Cloud Strategies, Appirio
• Steve Coplan, Senior Analyst, The 451 Group
• Doug Harr, CIO, Ingres Corporation
• Scott Carruth, VP Information Systems, Initiate Systems
• Michael Amend, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Dell Inc.

The discussion focused on the key issues the group believes need to be addressed for SaaS and cloud applications to become ‘mainstream’ technologies in the enterprise.  Follow the link below to read a full recap of the session and to view a recording of the webinar.

Learn more here >> 

Conformity Weekly Webinar Series

• What employees have access to critical SaaS applications and data? 
  
• Is access appropriate for their role? 
  
• Do terminated employees still have access to sensitive data?
  
• What are we spending on unused seats?

In our new weekly webinar series 'Introduction to Conformity', learn how our solution can answer these questions, and help organizations reduce the risk and cost of managing their SaaS deployments.

Learn more here >>

Extending Active Directory to the Cloud

One of the use cases we’re almost universally supporting across our midsize enterprise customer base here at Conformity is integration with Microsoft Active Directory (AD), and providing the ability to extend and link employee, role and organizational data with identity stores contained in leading SaaS applications such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Google Apps and others.  Hear more about our perspectives on the challenges of integrating SaaS apps into on-premise directory services in our blog on SaaS Management.

Read our blog here  >>