Sentillion vs Microsoft Forefront
Posted by pramatr on December 15th, 2009
REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 10, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it intends to acquire Sentillion Inc., a privately held company specializing in software for the healthcare industry.
Microsoft acquire IDM solutions vendor Sentillion, it seems more from a healthcare perspective than identity management.
Classified as visionaries within user provisioning by Gartner, Sentillion have a good array of SSO and IdM expertise which Microsoft could amalgamate with their own Forefront Identity Manager.
It wont be easy; Sentillion is specifically geared towards the healthcare sector so could be missing a few essential pieces to fit snugly and Forefront also has a provisioning solutions as does Sentillion in the form of ProVision. But to leverage only Sentilion’s healthcare presence, at a time when US healthcare is going through a revolution, and nothing else would be a travesty.
Only time will tell.