IBM Scored Highest for B2C Use Case in Gartner Critical Capabilities for Access Management Report

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IBM Scored Highest in B2C Use Case in First-Ever Gartner Critical Capabilities for Access Management Report

IBM is proud to announce that it has received the highest score for Business to Consumer (B2C) use cases in Gartner’s new report, Critical Capabilities for Access Management, Worldwide. At a time when 3/4ths of companies intend to invest funds in customer-facing authentication, consumer access management platforms that allow seamless access to applications are in high and growing demand.

We believe that Gartner’s report, an in-depth analysis of the top capabilities security leaders should look for in access management vendors, provides further validation of our overall leadership in the access management marketplace. For two consecutive years, Gartner has placed IBM as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management.

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Supporting our client’s clients with innovative authentication

It’s not just a scorecard of capabilities that earned us recognition. IBM is partnering with our customers to enhance their users’ experience with innovative authentication.

For example, we’ve recently partnered with BMO Financial Group and partner BioConnect on a leading edge biometric authentication platform for commercial and corporate clients. The new platform, announced in October, lets BMO’s customers log in and verify financial transactions with biometric methods including fingerprint, voice, face and eye. According to BMO’s Sharon Haward-Laird, Head of North America Treasury and Payments, “we continue to transform the bank with a focus on offering new digital capabilities that will enhance the user experience and align with changing customer expectations, and this partnership is a reflection of that….Offering a way for our customers to quickly authenticate transactions and payments using biometric authentication vastly improves the customer experience while enhancing security for our clients in Canada and the U.S.”

The core of access management is Single Sign On – and for many organizations, uniting new, old and acquired technologies under one SSO regime for external access is still a significant challenge. In Europe, we’re working with agencies like POST Luxembourg, a government-owned agency that offers postal, financial and cell service to Luxembourgian citizens, to provide a single, seamless platform for customers to access all their services with one set of credentials.

Gartner’s Critical Capabilities Report

Are you researching IAM solutions for a business to consumer, business to employee, or business to partner deployment?

Register for a complimentary copy of the report now to learn:

• Why IBM received the highest overall score for Buisness to Consumer use cases (graphic above)
• The top 15 access management vendors, scored on their ability to deliver 9 capabilities across 3 use cases (B2C/B2E/B2P)
• Definitions and feature scopes for Gartner’s 9 must-haves for Access Management, including user authentication, SSO, session management, social identity support, SaaS application enablement, and more.

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