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Siemens, BT team up for ID management
Telco will resell Siemens Medical Solutions' identity and access-management products.
BT is to resell the identity and access-management products of Siemens Medical Solutions.
The products involved are in Siemens Medical Solutions' DirX portfolio, which includes authentication, authorization, audit and reporting, Web single sign-on and identity-federation tools.
BT will use the products in its client identity-management consultancy and will focus on business processes and compliance criteria. Customers can choose for the identity management products to be hosted on-site or in one of BT's data centers.
The agreement will initially cover the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the United States.