COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Oct. 14, 2003—Intelliden Corporation, the intelligent networking company,today announced the immediate availability of industry-specific enterprise and government product bundles that are customized to solve particular industry challenges. In this latest extension of the company’s software, customers can now personalize the Intelliden R-Series™ solution to meet the unique business needs of seven vertical markets: financial services, health care, retail, automotive, insurance, government and service provider. The company also lists multiple case studies on its Web site (www.intelliden.com) detailing how its software can be customized to help organizations manage their Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructure more efficiently, productively and securely.
Intelliden customers can select the features they would like to use from the four Intelliden R-Series product pillars and bundle them together to meet their changing business needs. By combining specific features from each of its four product pillars, Intelliden enables customers to address key business challenges.
Intelliden’s vertical solutions are ideal for solving wide-ranging, critical business challenges such as audit and federal compliance issues in financial services; HIPAA issues in insurance and health care; network security issues in government agencies and defense contractors; resiliency issues in retail; inventory issues in automotive; and business continuity issues in service providers. Each industry solution is built with standards-based components from Intelliden’s patent-pending workflow technology and four product pillars.
“Intelliden’s customized network management solutions are perfectly timed to help enterprises respond to the current slew of regulatory and security issues. As networks become more complex, improving configuration management is essential to streamlining IT operations while also mitigating security concerns from hack attacks, complying with regulatory policies such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA, and quickly activating new services,” said Zeus Kerravala, vice president, enterprise infrastructure, Yankee Group. “Most IT operations groups have significant performance issues concerning their change management, problem management, and asset management processes. Yet, many of these problems are actually caused by inadequate configuration management, rather than the primary operational process in question. Intelliden’s four product pillars provide end-to-end configuration management solutions while also allowing enterprises to link network and IT resources with business priorities.”
“We believe that Intelliden’s industry solutions will simplify and revolutionize the way companies and organizations manage their IP networks,” said Dale Hecht, Intelliden president and CEO. “We enable each customer to easily personalize their Intelliden solution to address their individual business priorities. This allows them to immediately begin making their businesses more productive.”
By combining specific features from each of the four Intelliden product pillars Intelliden enables customers to address key industry challenges:
Financial Services: The rapid growth of online banking in recent years has created a wealth of new customer-friendly services, but has also increased banks’ network security, audit and business compliance risk. Banks need to secure logical and physical resources, authenticate users, build an adequate infrastructure to ensure the integrity of customer transactions, records and information, and be able to report on that compliance.
Health Care: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 helped establish national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health plans, and employers. It also addresses the security and privacy of health data. Leaders in the health care industry are focused on ensuring strong HIPAA compliance, from the physician’s desktop through a highly secure IP network with authenticated transactions, to the insurance provider’s data center.
Retail: The slowing economy means canceling high-profile IT projects and concentrating on enterprise resource planning to ensure that the network infrastructure runs smoothly. Right now, network control, optimization and visibility have become the main focus in leading retail businesses around the world. The mandate is to keep costs down while integrating disparate systems into one solid IT foundation that delivers seamless supply chain management between vendors and partners. Retailers recognize that to be successful with any online initiative, they first must have a rock-solid network infrastructure in place that is controlled remotely by powerful software.
Automotive: Building shareholder value and financial strength means achieving technical leadership, efficiency and scale. Today, cars are designed in one country and assembled in another using parts shipped from suppliers around the world. The key to making this supply chain cost-effective is leveraging an IP network to reduce production errors, while maximizing massive economies of scale. A powerful IP network provides a significant strategic advantage by helping link customers, vendors, suppliers and employees for placing, accepting and shipping orders.
Insurance: The insurance industry is also subject to HIPAA regulations. To stay competitive, insurers must focus on consolidating their IT systems and securing their networks to ease reliable claims processing, enabling Web services for consumers and bringing new services to market in real time.
Government: Homeland Security is expected to spend over $40 billion annually on information technology to improve the United States’ national security. Now more than ever, every federal, state and local government IP network administrator must protect their IP infrastructure against attack. At the same time, the Clinger-Cohen Act (formerly the Technology Management Reform Act) mandates that the federal government must expand electronic commerce to streamline government business processes, while guaranteeing privacy and security and integrating the overall government services information infrastructure.
Service Providers: Every dollar spent on a router or switch can turn into 3-4 times as much in overall operational costs. Managing an IP network involves a complex mix of routing and switch technologies to navigate. There are multiple vendors with multiple operating systems to configure. And there are the constant pressures of rolling out new services faster while reducing costs. Unfortunately, the end result in today’s highly competitive environment is lower operational efficiency, higher costs, reduced network optimization and shrinking margins
Enterprises, government organizations and service providers worldwide benefit from the Intelliden R-Series software suite’s ability to provide rapid identification, analysis and resolution of networking issues that can threaten the availability, security, provisioning and compliance of business-critical network devices. The Intelliden R-Series ensures business continuity via granular control of IP network devices. It notifies users and other applications about device and network changes, while also identifying who did what to the network—when, where and why. Intelliden’s software can also be used to intelligently and automatically roll back a network device to the best previously known network state. Customers can also leverage the Intelliden R-Series OS upgrade manager for management and control of the device OS upgrade process, and have fully audited integration with the overall change management processes for their network devices.
About Intelliden Corporation
With the Intelliden R-Series, networks become more intelligent and efficient by dynamically responding to business priorities, which allows businesses and organizations to reduce costs, optimize network resources, increase network security and accelerate service activation. The Intelliden R-Series™ software suite consists of four intelligent networking product pillars: Auditing and Reporting, Configuration and Control, Provisioning and Activation, and Security Management. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., Intelliden has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and London. For more information, visit www.intelliden.com.
Contact Information:
Heathere Evans-Keenan
703.875.8969
heathere.keenan@intelliden.com
Pam Miles
703.892.1114
pam.miles@intelliden.com