And we at Tivoli are active in number of industry efforts around security standards development. Activities of the standards bodies reinforce the market trend towards reusability of core application services because core services are being segmented from the application by standardized interfaces. Take LDAP as the case in point for directories. Customers are saying they want it, so IBM gives it away on platforms. Look at the recent AZN API from the Open Group standardizing a set of interfaces for applications sharing authorization services in the network.
Authorization is the heartbeat of a company's security strategy.
In addition, your authorization solution must position you for growing your enterprise and services. And for helping deal with the technology landscape as it evolves over the next decade. If it doesn't, it's not watching over your entire enterprise. Security alone is not enough. Customers want enterprise systems management, authorization and access control services.