Access Governance Leader Chosen for Second Consecutive Year Based on Continued Growth and Strong Momentum with Channel Partners

Waltham, Mass.—July 2, 2009—Aveksa, Inc., the market-leading provider of enterprise access governance solutions, today announced it has been it has been chosen by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor for the second consecutive year. CRN's Emerging Technology Vendor list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants.

Aveksa was chosen by CRN based on the innovation and strong channel momentum of its Aveksa Enterprise Governance Platform, the industry’s first comprehensive solution for access governance, risk and compliance management, which delivers unmatched visibility into user access rights. Aveksa’s flourishing partner ecosystem is enabling many of the world’s top system integrators and advisory services firms to embed their access governance methodologies through Aveksa’s technology, enabling their customers to streamline the access delivery process while ensuring that access compliance and risk objectives are being met.

“Solution providers seek out innovative vendors that create new and innovative ideas to help them build revenue and customer loyalty. Our Emerging Tech list is where solution providers go to find these vendors. We congratulate all of the vendors for their innovation, creativity and commitment to the technology sales channel,” said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel.

“Aveksa’s partner ecosystem plays a critical role in our continued worldwide growth and success,” said Brian Cleary, vice president of products and marketing for Aveksa. “This recognition from CRN provides strong validation for both the innovation of Aveksa’s access governance solutions and the momentum of our channel initiatives. We are committed to providing the industry’s best technology for helping companies achieve sustainable access risk and compliance management, and we look forward to continuing our successful relationship with our partners to meet the global demand for our solutions.”

The Aveksa Access Governance Platform is comprised of Aveksa Compliance Manager, which automates the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements; Aveksa Role Manager, which enables role discovery, modeling and maintenance; and Aveksa Access Request and Change Manager, which combines a business-centric interface and an automated, streamlined request process with policy controls to ensure that access is always appropriate.

With the Aveksa Access Governance Platform, organizations can efficiently address security and regulatory demands through a collaborative process that automates manual tasks, enforces accountability, provides the auditable evidence of compliance, reduces access-related business risk, and creates an effective process for access delivery and change management across the entire enterprise.

The vendors selected to the CRN Emerging Technology Vendor list were founded in 2001 or later, have revenue under $1 billion and have an active U.S. channel strategy. Final selection to the Emerging Technology Vendor list was made by the CRN editorial team after a review of submitted information.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)
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About Aveksa
Aveksa provides the most comprehensive, enterprise-class, access governance, risk management and compliance solution. Aveksa automates the on-boarding, change management, monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements and roles; enables role discovery and lifecycle management; and delivers unmatched visibility into the true state of user access rights. With Aveksa, business, security and compliance teams can effectively collaborate and enforce accountability. Our growing customer base includes leading Global 2000 organizations in financial services, healthcare, retail, transportation and manufacturing. For more information, go to www.aveksa.com