The Munich-based econet AG is a provider of business software in the fields of identity and access management with core strength in the fields of provisioning and authorization, reporting and auditing. Founded in 1994, econet helps globally active businesses and large public administrative bodies set up, operate, administrate and bill their IT services. The econet AG also assists them in the task of safeguarding their IT business processes.

The econet AG offers its clients a methodical approach to gradually set up suitable measures so that they can:

• Quickly satisfy progressively more rigorous compliance requirements concerning data access
• Automate processes to achieve securer and more efficient IT operation
• Make the ordering of IT services (e.g. applications, e-mail or data storages) as simple and transparent as ordering a book from an online shop.

This creates a flexible corporate world and leads to a higher level of security and long-lasting reductions in the cost of operating, administrating and setting up IT services. econet’s solutions combine ITIL Best Practices and a service-oriented architecture (SOA) as infrastructure. Based on Microsoft’s .NET development platform, they’ve been awarded numerous prizes in the industry.