Sun Welcomes Vaau
March 2008 by Marc Jacob
Sun Microsystems, Inc. completed its acquisition of Vaau, Inc., a premier provider of Enterprise Role Management (ERM) and identity compliance solutions.
This acquisition is expected to improve Sun’s overall competitive position in the identity audit and compliance space by providing Sun with the opportunity to strengthen its foothold in the increasingly important category of Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC). With the acquisition of Vaau, Sun will be able to extend its capabilities to address more robust customer requirements including automation, simplification and business alignment.
Vaau’s RBACx solution, which is now called the Sun Java System Role Manager, combined with the provisioning and identity auditing capabilities of Sun’s existing identity management portfolio powered by the Solaris 10 Operating System, will help enable organizations to streamline the provisioning process and significantly reduce the cost of auditing.