Sentillion Introduces Affordable Next Generation Healthcare Single Sign-On Solution Called expreSSO(TM)


LONDON, September 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- The only healthcare-specific, enterprise-class SSO solution that is low
cost, full featured and reduces deployment time from months to days

- Compliments Connecting for Health initiatives, Supports NHS Smartcards

Sentillion, the company that created healthcare single sign-on (SSO),
today announced their next generation SSO solution called expreSSO(TM).
Developed exclusively for healthcare, expreSSO builds on key elements of
Sentillion's proven identity and access management (IAM) platform to create
an affordable "plug and go" solution that makes enterprise-class SSO
accessible to the widest possible range of healthcare organisations. Out of
the box, expreSSO will support NHS Smartcards to enable users to swiftly
authenticate to their applications, thus reducing the time spent signing on
and improving the Trust's security position.

"While working with over 450 hospitals to implement comprehensive
identity and access management solutions for their clinical care
environments, we noticed an emerging trend where organisations wish to focus
initially on single sign-on," said Paul Roscoe, president of worldwide sales
& marketing for Sentillion. "expreSSO was created to meet this need by
dramatically reducing the cost and complexity classically associated with
single sign-on deployments"

Gartner, Inc.'s recent magic quadrant for enterprise single sign-on
stated that "most enterprises' initial implementation times range from three
to six months; this is the time it takes to integrate a planned set of
applications (from 10 to 20) and to deploy an initial set of users (hundreds
to 2,000)(1)."

With expreSSO, Sentillion has streamlined this once complex process
through innovative technology that enables healthcare organisations to deploy
single sign-on trust-wide in only a matter of days. For example, expreSSO's
intelligent agent technology profoundly simplifies the generation of
application connectors through a unique point-and-click methodology that
presents each connector's capabilities as a series of interactive animations.
Each animation sequence can be easily configured to meet the specific needs
of each target application. Using a wizard, connectors for a broad range of
applications -- including Windows, Web, and terminal-based -- can be easily
generated. In addition, expreSSO includes a catalog of pre-built SSO
application connectors, which Sentillion continues to expand, that provide
"off the shelf" application integration to even further accelerate the speed
of deployment and clinical adoption.

Additional key features and benefits of expreSSO include:
    -- Support for graceful single sign off in addition to single sign on,
    -- Fast User Switching, enabling users to log on and off of shared
       workstations in a matter of seconds,
    -- Built-in support for strong authentication including smartcards,
       fingerprint biometrics, active proximity, or passive proximity and
       combinations of these technologies,
    -- Enterprise Grace Period to enable organisations to automatically
       adjust the type of authentication required during the course of each
       clinician's work day,
    -- Secure self-service password reset, even on a locked workstation, to
       eliminate help desk calls,
    -- Intelligent agent technology with extensive catalog of application
       connectors for rapid SSO integration with Windows, web, and terminal
       applications,
    -- Unique animated wizard for rapid point-and-click generation of new
       application connectors when needed,
    -- Quick-start wizard for expedited system set-up,
    -- Plug-and-play with automatic user identity import and ongoing
       synchronisation with enterprise directories along with automated
       application password learning to enable rapid deployment,
    -- Easy to use centralised system administration with automatic event
       notification,
    -- A proven appliance-based five-nines (99.999% uptime) fault tolerant
       architecture capable of supporting and maintaining more than 100,000
       users,
    -- Scalable from departmental to enterprise-wide to national deployments,
    -- Disaster recovery-ready for multi-site active or hot-standby
       deployment,
    -- Centralised single sign-on audit log with built-in reporting,
    -- An array of fixed-price services and support options to meet the
       specific needs of each trust.



For almost a decade, Sentillion has been at the forefront of innovation
when it comes to delivering solutions that help healthcare organisations
overcome the challenges associated with identity and access management. The
first company to bring an SSO solution on a network appliance to market,
Sentillion's IAM solutions are the most widely deployed in healthcare and
used daily by more than 275,000 caregivers. Sentillion's solutions are in use
at prestigious UK trusts including Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
NHS Trust (GOSH), Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and City Hospitals
Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.

"With our unwavering commitment to bringing our customers live,
Sentillion has clearly established itself as the lowest risk, highest value
option among all identity and access management offerings," said Robert
Seliger, Sentillion's CEO. "Now, with expreSSO we are delighted to make the
core benefits of our technology even more appealing by offering healthcare
organisations a new option: an affordable SSO solution that quickly and
easily improves caregiver satisfaction, enables them to focus greater 
attention on the patient and provides an immediate return on investment."

Pricing & Availability

For pricing details, please contact Sentillion directly. The product will
be generally available in Q4 2007.

For More Information
    To learn more about expreSSO, please visit www.sentillion.com/expresso.



About Sentillion

Since 1998, Sentillion has been revolutionizing healthcare IT with award
winning, industry recognized identity and access management technology.
Sentillion has successfully combined patented technology with a deep
understanding of the healthcare industry to deliver the most comprehensive
set of solutions for single sign-on, user provisioning, clinical workstations
and virtualized remote access. Sentillion is the only identity and access
management company whose solutions are used daily by over 275,000 caregivers
in leading healthcare organizations across North America and Europe.
Sentillion is a privately held company headquartered in Andover, Mass. For
more information, visit Sentillion at www.sentillion.com.

Contacts:
    Jennifer Haas
    Sentillion
    +1-978-689-9095 (ext. 262)
    jennifer.haas@sentillion.com

    (1) Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Single Sign-On, 2007"
        by G. Kreizman. August 30, 2007_

    Web site: http://www.sentillion.com
              http://www.sentillion.com/expresso



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