This is surely an excellent example of how security solutions are being used to drive big savings and large efficiencies. In similar fashion, T. Rowe Price, a leading investment firm specializing in 401Ks and financial services, didn't know they had a cost saving opportunity in printing and mailing their 401K statements. In turn, they were then able to pass on these savings to their customers. So, not only is T. Rowe Price saving money for both customers and themselves, they are reinforcing their image as a leading user of new technology for doing business. With a secure Web delivery process that could handle sensitive financial material such as 401K statements, T. Rowe Price demonstrated how, with proper control, a company can fulfill on the Internet's promise of bringing heightened productivity and ROI to its business.
Standards benefit all users.
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.