[OpenID] NEC and OpenID in Japan

[Tatsuki Sakushima]

NEC has enhanced the Identity Management Suite "NC7000-3A", and
developed a new product "NC7000-3A-OI" which employs OpenID. NEC release
it today.

NC7000-3A-OI is the product for both communication services such as
telecoms, ISPs, SNS and blogs, and service providers such as e-commerce
sites. Because of increase of Internet-based services, managing IDs and
accounts on each sites has become a big burden. NC7000-3A-OI helps users
and providers to implement SSO to reduce the problem. This product
adopts OpenID because of the simplicity. OpenID is comparably easier to
use than SAML, and Our customer can expect much shorter development and
deployment time. NC7000-3A-OI enhances security for vulnerabilities
caused by use of free license libraries and certain implementation.

With NC7000-3A-OI, NC7000-3A can extend the capability to many fields.
NC7000-3A-OI is for service providers who want to implement SSO with low
cost. NC7000-3A-ID is for telecoms, ISPs, financial institutes who
require more security and flexibility of attribute exchange. NC7000-3A
has features for user authentication and ID management. It is easy to be
extended with OpenID and SAML to implement common ID federation
infrastructure and will support ID federation strategy for telecoms and
ISPs.
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This is not precise translation of the original. But you can see what is
written. The end of this press mentions that the pricing is based on
individual estimate including customizing. The sales target is 300
systems in 3 years. NEC supports OpenID Foundation Japan. There is Nat's
comment to congratulates for this release as well.

Tatsuki Sakushima
NRI Pacific - Nomura Research Institute America, Inc.


David Recordon ????????:
> Anyone read Japanese and want to translate this press release please? http://www.nec.co.jp/press/ja/0809/2901.html
> 
> Thanks,
> --David
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