Version 3 automates the process of approving rights and empowers business managers to make changes to usage rights for employees working for them, the Waltham, Mass.-based company said in a statement. To balance out the fact that more company employees are able to change user rights, the upgrade includes tighter auditing features to track who makes what changes.
Identity Manager, which Argyle said competes mostly with products from Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM, also offers real-time synchronization of user access rights across the network. Identity Manager 3 costs US$75,000 per installation and $25 per user. A provisioning module costs an additional $30,000 per installation and $10 per user.
Novell declined to say how many Identity Manager users it has today. When it released Version 2 of Identity Manager, previously known as DirXML, in January 2004, Novell said it had 1,400 customers at the time.