SPML OASIS InterOp Press Release

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

FYI, the final version of the press release follows. The position of company
quotes is indicated, but those quotes remain confidential until the release is
distributed, in order to respect the confidentiality of each company.
--carol


Companies Demonstrate Interoperability of Service Provisioning Mark-up Language
(SPML) OASIS Standard

BMC Software, CA, Citrix, Oracle, Sun, and Others Collaborate on Service
Provisioning InterOp at Burton Catalyst 06 
 
San Francisco, CA, USA; 14 June 2006 -- Six international companies joined
together to demonstrate interoperability of the Service Provisioning Mark-up
Language (SPML) version 2.0 at the Burton Catalyst 06 conference in San
Francisco today. Developed by the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical
Committee, SPML is an approved OASIS Standard that lets companies manage the
provisioning and allocation of identity information and system resources within
and between organizations.

"The SPML OASIS InterOp at Catalyst is a milestone in the development of a
standards-based approach for the management of user identities across
heterogeneous applications," stated Mark Diodati, analyst for Burton Group's
Identity and Privacy Strategies. "Products that leverage SPML can help
organizations provide user access to resources without custom provisioning
connectors."

The Catalyst demonstration scenarios involve a group of companies that
outsource various services to application service providers (ASPs). Each ASP
publishes a SPML interface for provisioning accounts. Each company uses a SPML
client that makes provisioning requests to the ASPs as needed. The roles of
company and ASP are interchangeable among all six InterOp participants. 

"Both provisioning vendors and their customers benefit from the increased
standardization that 
SPML 2.0 offers," said Jeff Bohren of BMC Software, co-chair of the OASIS
Provisioning Services Technical Committee and participant in the InterOp.
"Today's demonstration showed how smoothly SPML interoperates among products
and users, resulting in lower costs and quicker implementations. The range of
systems that support SPML is exciting, and demand in the marketplace for SPML
support continues to grow."

Members of the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee include
representatives of BEA Systems, BMC Software, CA, Capgemini, Hewlett-Packard,
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SOA Software, Sun Microsystems, and others.
Participation remains open to all, and suppliers, end-users, and systems
integrators are invited to join OASIS to advance the continued development and
adoption of SPML. OASIS hosts an open mail list for public comment and the
spml-dev mailing list for exchanging information on implementing the standard.

Companies Collaborate on SPML Interoperability

<QUOTES FROM BMC Software, CA, Citrix, Oracle, Sun Microsystems go here>




Additional Information: 

OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/provision/
 
About OASIS:
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is
a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development,
convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the
OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to
promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. The consortium produces
open standards for Web services, security, e-business, and standardization
efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. Founded in
1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600
organizations and individual members in 100 countries. Approved OASIS Standards
include AVDL, BCM, CAP, DITA, DocBook, DSML, ebXML CPPA, ebXML Messaging, ebXML
Registry, EDXL-DE, EML, OpenDocument, SAML, SPML, UBL, UDDI, WSDM,
WS-Reliability, WSRF, WSRP, WS-Security, XACML, XCBF, and XML Catalogs.
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Press contact:
Carol Geyer
Director of Communications, OASIS
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
+1.978.667.5115 x209