Siemens managed to enter the web access management and identity federation market successfully by buying in and then significantly developing technology. Siemens DirX Access’ version 8.1 is a technically accomplished solution with a flexible and modular architecture concept. Siemens DirX Access 8.1 covers all standard requirements for solutions in this segment and in addition offers even more features for web services security and application integration options - especially for federation-support. The product is thus one of the leading solutions in the marketplace.
A decisive factor is the consistent support of standards such as SAML, XACML and information cards. Furthermore, Siemens was one of the first leading providers in the web access management market supporting user-centric identity management technology in its solution.
Other positive factors are consistently implemented concepts such as policy-based administration, SOA-support (within the application and for external applications) and support of RBAC-approaches and XACML.
Siemens DirX Access in its current version is amongst the leading technological solutions in the market for web access management, externalisation of authentication, authorisation and identity federation. In our opinion this product should definitely be included in evaluations.
