They have acquired a number of small companies. Their policy is that an acquired company concert to these standard systems within 90 days. Many attending companies have faced the problem of merging IT with merged companies. They are giving up on any kind of multi-platform applications. Account ID's are linked to the UPN for NT, which is required for the entry.
Access control is linked to account group membership.
Not real flexible. She got a lot of very hard questioning by the audience. They dump the HR file to the metadirectory every 15 minutes. Sounds very much like our directory, except that some data is maintained on the directory. This company specializes in management software for metadirectories, now applied to Active Directory and Domino.