Novell Identity Manager 4 Unifies Identity and Access Management for Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments

Intelligent, cloud-ready and secure, Novell Identity Manager offers two versions targeting unique business needs of customers and partners

AMSTERDAM, May 19, 2010 - Novell BrainShare Europe — Novell today unveiled Identity Manager 4, a
unique family of solutions that securely manages identity and access across
physical, virtual and cloud environments. Novell(R) Identity Manager 4 is the
industry's first solution to ensure consistent identity, security and
compliance policies for an organization's entire IT ecosystem, including
offering the same level of trust in the cloud that exists in the data center.
As a result, customers and partners can better protect their corporate data
while reducing the cost and complexity of demonstrating compliance.

Business models such as distributed management, outsourcing and on-demand
software and computing, such as SaaS, make today's IT ecosystem complex.
Managing data and transactions on-premise and off-premise, combined with
increasing regulatory requirements, calls for organizations to have a
holistic view of who has access to what resources to ensure compliance.
Novell addresses this core problem by enabling centralized user provisioning,
roles management and secure access to resources and applications - whether in
the data center or in the cloud.

Novell Identity Manager 4 is another milestone in Novell's delivery of
products to meet the growing demand for intelligent workload management
solutions (www.novell.com/intelligent-workload-management).
Intelligent workload management enables organizations to securely manage and
optimize heterogeneous computing resources across physical, virtual and cloud
(www.novell.com/cloud) environments.

"The emergence of virtual and cloud-driven business models has created
new challenges around identity and access management
(www.novell.com/solutions/identity-and-access). CIOs need a consistent,
extensible platform for managing identities inside and outside the walls of
their enterprise — or their cloud strategy will fail," said Ron Hovsepian,
CEO of Novell. "Novell Identity Manager 4 delivers a secure, cloud-ready
platform to address this challenge so customers can benefit from intelligent
workload management."

The beta program for Novell Identity Manager 4 is already underway, with
more than 50 large customers and partners worldwide actively participating.

"Novell Identity Manager is the foundation for providing sustainable
security and compliance in today's distributed computing environments," said
Steven Jones, director of Operational Risk, Synovus. "For example, we use
Identity Manager to synchronize and manage more than 6,700 identities across
our IT environment. When a user changes roles or moves from one location to
another, their access rights are updated automatically, giving our users
unimpeded, secure and compliant access to the resources they need to do their
jobs. Novell is setting the industry standard for secure, interoperable and
compliant identity management."

Novell Identity Manager 4 family has two distinct offerings

Every customer has a unique identity management challenge. Novell now
offers two products that address specific needs:

    - Novell Identity Manager 4 extends the capabilities of Novell
      Identity Manager 3.6 to include enhanced scalability and tight
      integration with Microsoft* SharePoint*, SAP* ERP systems and cloud
      applications including Salesforce.com and Google Apps. It also offers
      out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and tools for data cleansing and
      policy framework design.
    - Novell Identity Manager 4 Advanced Edition redefines
      enterprise-grade user provisioning by integrating sophisticated roles
      management, advanced workflow capabilities, and intelligent reporting
      capabilities. It is designed to support the identity and compliance
      needs for the most advanced enterprise or managed service provider.
      Novell Identity Manager 4 Advanced Edition also includes tools for data
      cleansing, policy framework design and the ability to define roles and
      entitlements using a simple drag and drop functionality, eliminating the
      need to write code.

Novell's broad partner ecosystem are already demonstrating support for
Novell Identity Manager 4, including ACS, Atos Origin, Deloitte, ILANTUS,
Infosys, KPMG, Mycroft and Wipro. Accordingly, Novell is investing heavily in
training both value-added resellers and consulting systems integrators.

"Organizations worldwide are enhancing their identity infrastructure to
provide the foundation of a secure and compliant environment within the
enterprise and the cloud," said Lyle Carlson, director, Deloitte & Touche
LLP. "Through our relationship with Novell and our joint efforts meeting the
needs of these very large companies, the paramount issues associated with
security and identity can now be addressed. Novell helps us to bring these
together in a way that will help us deliver optimal value to our customers
with a solution that is well designed, well architected and functions as
intended."

Helping Enterprises be more Intelligent, Cloud-Ready and Secure

The Novell Identity Manager 4 family of solutions helps Novell customers
become more intelligent, cloud-ready, and secure.

Intelligent — Novell Identity Manager 4 helps enterprises gain
intelligence about operations by providing unmatched visibility into user
access. With integrated role management and workflow, it reduces costs while
empowering business users to define and control who has access to what. This
greatly reduces the time it takes to get users provisioned and allows for
more disbursed and robust oversight into user entitlements. At the same time,
generating actionable and meaningful reporting from identity management
solutions is a core customer requirement. Identity Manager 4 sets the
benchmark for the industry with an integrated framework that provides both
current and historical reports on provisioning activity so customers can more
easily meet compliance requirements with reports that show who provided
access to whom and when.

Cloud-Ready — The shift to virtualized and cloud computing has
fundamentally altered the identity management landscape as security and
policy management controls no longer live neatly within the firewall. Novell
Identity Manager 4 offers the scalability and high-availability required of
large-scale deployments by providing seamless, real-time user
provisioning/deprovisioning, request/approval processes, password changes,
identity profile updates and reporting. With these unique solutions,
customers can count on Novell Identity Manager as their source of record as
they take advantage of new computing paradigms, including common SaaS
applications such as Google Apps or Salesforce.com.

"IAM ensures appropriate access to resources across heterogeneous
technology environments. This is a crucial and increasingly business-aligned
undertaking for any enterprise - particularly due to increasingly rigorous
compliance requirements - and requires business skills, not just technical
expertise," writes Ant Allan, analyst, Gartner. "Enterprises that develop
mature IAM capabilities can reduce the cost of managing users' identities and
entitlements and, more importantly, become more agile in supporting new
business initiatives and contributing to profitability."(1)

Secure — Security is a core driver for implementing an identity
management solution. Organizations need to secure data while still allowing
users the required levels of access. Novell Identity Manager continues to be
the only solution uniquely architected for real-time response across multiple
environments which practically eliminates security holes due to delayed
de-provisioning. Enhancements to Identity Manager 4 include tools to ensure
that enterprise security policies are consistent across different systems,
eliminating a common source of security and compliance problems. With a
tightly integrated view of identity across the enterprise, the Novell
Identity Manager 4 family of solutions provides the foundation for the
sophisticated security required by today's threats.

Availability

Novell Identity Manager 4 is currently in beta now through July.
Companies interested in participating can request information here
(www.novell.com/beta/auth/beta.jsp?id=3605&type=3). The product family
will be commercially available in Q3 2010.

About Novell

Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), a leader in Intelligent Workload Management,
helps organizations securely deliver and manage computing services across
physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. We help customers reduce
the cost, complexity, and risk associated with their IT systems through our
solutions for identity and security, systems management, collaboration and
Linux based operating platforms. With our infrastructure software and
ecosystem of partnerships, Novell integrates mixed IT environments, allowing
people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit
www.novell.com.

Novell is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and
other countries. *All third-party trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.

(1) Gartner, Inc. Key Issues for Identity and Access Management, 2010,
Ant Allan, Gregg Kreizman, March 1, 2010.

Amie Johnson of Novell, +1-801-861-2893, amie at novell.com; or Becki Parkhurst of PAN Communications, +1-978-474-1900, securenovell at pancomm.com, for Novell, Inc.