OASIS Member News: Business Layers First to Deliver Industry-Specific Provisioning Solutions

[Sharon Tolpin <Sharon.Tolpin@businesslayers.com>]

Business Layers First to Deliver Industry-Specific Provisioning Solutions
Leading Provisioning Software Provider to Deliver Uniquely Tailored
Solutions for Various Market Segments
ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. - March 17, 2003 - Business Layers, the eProvisioning
Company(tm), today announced its strategy to introduce a new family of
industry-specific provisioning solutions. These "quick-deploy" product
offerings apply domain expertise on top of an extensible product
architecture, to deliver a uniquely tailored solution to specific customers'
needs. eProvision(tm) Education Edition, the first industry-specific
solution to ship, is the industry's first provisioning solution for higher
education (see today's related release) and the first in a series to be
delivered throughout 2003. 
Business Layers is credited with revolutionizing the identity management
industry by bringing the concept of user provisioning to market through its
award-winning product, eProvision(tm) Software, which allocates IT resources
according to business policies, providing an efficient, secure, systematic
and scalable system for creating and managing resources for any user. Now,
Business Layers is leveraging its experience with customers to target
specific provisioning challenges in industries, including education. 
Business Layers' industry-specific solutions solve customers' most pressing
provisioning problems using a combination of the company's market leading
technology, expertise in the challenges of key markets, and
industry-specific provisioning connectors. By building on proven, robust
technology and eliminating the need for custom solution development,
Business Layers' industry-specific solutions lower cost of ownership,
significantly reduce implementation times and provide more immediate ROI. 
"Today's marketplace dictates that software vendors must offer customers an
option to deploy solutions that are increasingly focused on a specific
problem, while maintaining the ability to seamlessly add more functionality
later on," said David Lavenda, vice president of Marketing & Product
Strategy at Business Layers. "We're responding with solutions tailored to
customer's specific provisioning problems, starting with the higher
education market, where we have a tremendous amount of experience." 
About eProvision Education Edition 
eProvision Education Edition enables students, faculty and staff to
seamlessly gain the appropriate network access the day they arrive on campus
and allows users to stay connected, even as their access needs change
throughout the school year. With eProvision Education Edition, student and
faculty accounts, email systems, administration systems and other
institutional applications are efficiently and securely provisioned and
"de-provisioned " automatically to reduce time-intensive administrative
costs, while significantly improving network security. 
About Business Layers
Business Layers is the leading provider of provisioning software solutions
that align the allocation of information technology resources with business
priorities, automatically connecting resources to people as they move in and
out of the business cycle. The cornerstone of customers' secure identity
management strategies, the company's flagship product, eProvision(tm)
Software, provides an efficient, secure and scalable system for creating and
managing resources for any user, including employees, customers, contractors
and business partners. Winner of numerous awards, including the 2002 Network
Computing's Editor's Choice Award, the Tornado Insider 100 Award and
featured in Computerworld's "Emerging Companies to Watch" list, Business
Layer's is backed by leading international investors Ascent Venture
Partners, Canaan Partners, Formula Ventures, Garage Technology Ventures,
Gemini Israel Funds, Israel Seed Partners, and Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL), and is
headquartered in Rochelle Park, NJ. For more information, please contact
Business Layers at 877-552-9377, or visit www.businesslayers.com.