For the second consecutive year, Omada is recognized by Microsoft for demonstrating a superior level of expertise and focus on delivering customer value.

Omada has won the 2009 Microsoft Partner of the Year award in the category ‘Security Solutions, Identity and Secure Access’.

“Omada continues to be a leading Microsoft partner in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) space with innovative solutions such as Role-Based Access Control, Compliance Reporting and Attestation and SharePoint Governance Management”,  says Peter Colsted, Regional Incubation Sales Director of Microsoft. “The award recognizes Omada’s’ innovative use of Microsoft technology to exceed customer expectations and solve identity management challenges by delivering on its vision to make Identity and Access Management easier and simpler, while creating real business value”. Colsted continues, “Omada continues to be a strategic partner for Microsoft delivering advanced enterprise solutions based on Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 and Forefront Identity Manager 2010, and I am looking forward to another great year together, providing value to more companies looking for an advanced Identity and Access Management solution”.

The annual partner awards honor Microsoft partners for delivering exemplary solutions to their customers during the past year. Award winners and finalists were chosen from nominations from around the world. Winners and finalists will be recognized at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, the company’s premier annual event for industry partners, being held July 13–16 in New Orleans.

“We are very excited about winning the worldwide Microsoft Partner of the year award again this year” said Morten Boel Sigurdsson, CEO of Omada. “Omada’s core vision is to make Identity and Access Management easier and simpler while consistently creating extraordinary business value for our customers”. Sigurdsson explains further “We continue to be fully dedicated to helping our customers meet the ever increasing requirements from compliance auditors, through constant innovation to our products based on Microsoft technologies”.

Omada Identity Manager
Omada’s investments cover both Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 and Forefront Identity Manager 2010.

The award-winning solution ‘Omada Identity Manager’ enables enterprises to manage identities in heterogeneous networks to secure systems and meet the increasing requirements from compliance auditors. The solution is built on the advanced Omada Role Engine and supports areas such as Policy Management, Role Based Access Control, User Provisioning, and Compliance Reporting and Attestation.

Omada's Role Based Access Control solution manages security in large heterogeneous networks by reducing the complexity of user administration and the associated costs significantly, while increasing the level of control and audit of access rights.  The flexibility of the Omada Identity Management solution allows a high degree of customization, enabling enterprises to meet specific requirements. This reduces the need for development, improves return on investment, and secures the success of the Identity Management project.

Omada Identity Manager provides an extensive range of advanced system integration scenarios ‘out-of-the-box’ with Seamless integration to SAP for HR process management, SAP GRC AC for efficient compliance of SAP access control, Microsoft SharePoint for easy governance of sites and user permission, and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager for computer and license management.  

Omada Identity Manager is a powerful modular solution built on the Microsoft platform. The solution features:

Advanced Enterprise Role Based Access Control
    - Manages access rights by roles, enabling business-level control of access rights
    - Easy overview of access rights for efficient user administration
    - Manages identities and permissions in ERP systems with advanced enterprise roles  functionality
    - Segregation of duties Policy Management, supporting integration to SAP GRC AC

Compliance Reporting Center
    - Automates compliance reporting and auditing for business users
    - Presents audit information to business managers and auditors in the way they require it
    - Easy report customization with visualization and drill-down features

Compliance Attestation Manager
    - Easy, automated attestation process, customized to fit your business needs
    - Process to ensure efficient, periodic audits of user permissions 
    - Complete log of attestation process to fulfill compliance regulations
    - Attestation on all systems in one, simple process because of integration across
      heterogeneous IT environments 

SharePoint Governance Manager
    - Centralizes administration of SharePoint farms and portals, including extranet
    - Role based management of user access across SharePoint farms and portals
    - Overview of user permissions across SharePoint farms and portals
    - Manages ownership and responsibility of all SharePoint sites
    - Fully managed permissions based on approval workflows
    - Standard reports for SharePoint compliance reporting

Data Cleaner
    - Cleans out obsolete accounts and improve mapping of user data in directories, speeding up project deployment
    - Prepare and clean directory data such as Accounts, Identities, Attributes and Roles.