Customers view enterprise single sign-on as a key requirement of a complete enterprise identity management solution. Integrating and delivering our market-leading enterprise sign-on solution with IBM's Identity Management portfolio will help customers in all markets advance their identity management, strong authentication and compliance projects.

Our joint solution with Sun is a trusted end-to-end identity management solution that helps customers meet both voluntary and mandatory regulations, and ensures the integrity of digital transactions. By providing each user with a consolidated identity and the means to secure it, our joint solution delivers an innovative way for businesses to assure the authenticity of employees, customers, partners or suppliers, as well as control what information they can access and what transactions they can perform.

We are dedicated to providing our customers powerful solution offerings that deliver a scalable security backbone to support identity management across evolving corporate and IT landscapes, ... Siemens identity management solution complements our platform and business solutions in order to drive enhanced competitive advantage for our customer base.

These numbers clearly demonstrate that enterprises recognize the need to tame the password problem and are turning to single sign-on technology as their strategy of choice. Passwords as we know them are headed for extinction.

IT directors and administrators need to look for a comprehensive, all-around solution to data management to bring about corporate governance, compliance and efficient storage management.

This opens up not only our online solution, but also our entire partner services group solution, to other management groups, so they can use it across their organizations.