BMW to drive on CA's SiteMinder

MUMBAI, INDIA: CA, Inc., an IT management software company, today announced that it is supporting BMW with scalable and centralized Web access management and single sign-on.

The improvements help increase security for the carmaker's Web applications, while simultaneously lowering IT administration costs.

BMW uses CA SiteMinder, a centralized Web access management solution, to provide user authentication and single sign-on access for more than 300,000 users.

With online communications between businesses and external users such as suppliers, associates, and customers, companies must strive to ensure that Web applications adhere to strict access controls that are also easy to implement and administer, said a press release.

By implementing this solution, BMW is in a position to manage secure access to a variety of Internet and intranet applications through a single login. This technology would further improve both security and compliance.

An additional advantage of CA SiteMinder is lower IT administration costs, added the release. It can be integrated into business applications such as SAP and PeopleSoft as part of the single sign-on process.