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Plumtree and Oblix Team to Deliver Federated Identity Management for Portals Plumtree to Resell Oblix COREid and SHAREid to Simplify and Reduce Cost of Managing Large-Scale and Inter-Organization Access to Portals CUPERTINO, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Oblix, the leading developer of identity-based security solutions, and Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software (NASDAQ:PLUM) today announced an expanded alliance including a broader reseller agreement and continued technology integration. Plumtree will now resell the Oblix SHAREid federated identity server and the Oblix COREid(TM) suite for Identity Management and Web Access Control. Plumtree and Oblix will co-host a Web seminar on federated identity management for portals on July 14 with registration at http://www.plumtree.com/04/oblix . Plumtree and Oblix are making it simpler for customers to address the identity management and access security issues that arise as organizations expand their portals to include customers, partners and suppliers. Using Oblix's federated identity management capabilities, Plumtree customers can cut the costs and risks of managing large customer or partner portals. "Organizations are driving increased business value from their portals by creating secure connections with external resources and users," said Craig Roth, vice president of technology research services for META Group. "To realize this value, organizations need a robust identity management infrastructure that permits delegation of administration. In this way, organizations can keep security high without assuming additional administrative responsibilities and costs." Organizations that want to connect with trusted partners and customers can get these links up and running quickly, easily and inexpensively with a Plumtree portal and the Oblix SHAREid federated identity server. The solution provides for Faster application deployment -- Organizations can use SHAREid to quickly connect user identities to external Web-based applications, allowing seamless user access via existing portal logons. For example, employees could easily be linked up to externally hosted applications for booking corporate travel or managing HR benefits, and use their same portal logon to access those applications. Easier partner collaboration -- Organizations can use SHAREid to allow customers and partners to access information and applications on their portal without assuming responsibility for managing and updating customer and partner user profiles. For instance, a manufacturer can give its top suppliers' employees access to product specifications in its portal, and have the suppliers manage all of the users according to policies set in advance by the manufacturer. By keeping responsibility for user identity management with the organization that employs the users, customers can ensure that security is up- to-date regardless of changes to individual users. SHAREid facilitates these seamless interactions by exchanging security assertions between two parties' security systems, in effect forwarding a security assertion that automatically logs employees into the appropriate remote system. "Identity management, particularly identity federation, is a top concern of enterprises deploying large-scale portals and portals for collaboration with trusted partners and customers," said Gordon Eubanks, CEO, Oblix. "Plumtree and Oblix are building upon our long history and close integration and making it even easier for customers to lay the security foundation that is critical to truly successful e-Business." Customers such as Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA), a government agency providing IT solutions for healthcare providers in Ontario, are already realizing the benefits of Plumtree portals with identity management powered by Oblix. "COREid made it possible for SSHA to easily deliver a cost-effective, customized self-registration process which will manage physician access to the various systems available in our Plumtree-powered physician portal," said Linda Weaver, SSHA Chief Technology Officer. "With Plumtree and Oblix, physicians will have simple, secure access to multiple applications delivered through the portal for maintaining electronic health records, sharing lab results, viewing patient records and interacting with clinical management systems. The integration of Plumtree and Oblix technologies forms the basis of the SSHA core products which deliver IT solutions to healthcare providers in the province of Ontario." "An increasing number of our customers need to share portal application data with customers, partners and suppliers," said Plumtree's CEO John Kunze. "We have airline customers that need to collaborate with their suppliers, and government agencies that need to collaborate with each of the different armed forces. Through our alliance with Oblix, we can help customers grant user identity management to these trusted parties in order to build their own secure worldwide Web." Visit the Plumtree-powered physician portal from Smart Systems for Health Agency ( http://www.ssha.on.ca/ ) at https://www.ontariomd.ca/ About Oblix Oblix Inc. is a leading developer of identity-based security solutions for managing business in a connected world. Based on a service-oriented architecture, Oblix solutions include rich Identity Management functionality and provide access control with single sign-on to enterprise applications. By giving companies a central means to securely connect users to applications, and applications to each other, inside and across corporate boundaries, Oblix reduces the cost, complexity, and risk of sharing user identities with business partners. Oblix provides an enterprise wide security architecture that enables companies to separate identity from applications, which can lower costs and administration effort, and federates external applications and users for enhanced compliance and security. Global corporations such as American Airlines, AXA Financial, British Airways, Carlson Companies, CEMEX, the Chicago Board of Trade, Country Companies, Farmers Group, General Motors, Hitachi, Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Norsk Hydro, Northern Trust, Old Mutual, Southwest Airlines, Stanford University, Tellabs, US Bank, the United States Postal Service, Wachovia, Washington Mutual, and many more rely on Oblix solutions. Oblix investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Apax Partners, General Motors, Van Wagoner Capital Management, Cisco Systems, Intel 64 Fund, Focus Ventures, Credit Suisse First Boston, and JP Morgan. With offices in North America and Europe, Oblix is headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., and can be reached at 408-861-6800. About Plumtree Software Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution to span rival platforms and systems, helping maximize customers' return on their existing technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has licensed over 600 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit Plumtree on the Web at http://www.plumtree.com/. NOTE: Oblix Inc., the Oblix logo, and Oblix COREid are trademarks of Oblix Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only. Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners. Courtney Hohne Oblix, Inc. 408-861-6715 Carilu Dietrich Plumtree Software 415-399-7047 DATASOURCE: Oblix Inc. CONTACT: Courtney Hohne of Oblix, Inc., +1-408-861-6715, or ; or Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047, or Web site: http://www.plumtree.com/ Web site: http://www.oblix.com/

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