Radiant Logic
Encyclopedia
Radiant Logic, Inc. is an American computer software corporation focusing on solutions for Identity Integration, Enterprise Information Integration
, Information Security
, and Data Management
. The company pioneered the development of the Virtual directory
in complex enterprise Identity Management
deployments.
Radiant Logic is best known for its RadiantOne Identity and Context Virtualization platform. The software line’s flagship product is the Virtual Directory Server Context Edition (VDS-CE), which is designed specifically for deployment in high-volume, high-complexity environments. RadiantOne’s VDS acts as an abstraction layer, extracting identity and context information out of various application and data silos. By re-mapping the underlying sources and presenting the identity data in customized views for the needs of enterprise applications, RadiantOne enables authentication and fine-grained authorization for identity management and context-driven applications.
Radiant Logic’s global customer base includes many Fortune 500 companies in the fields of banking, finance
, insurance
, government
, communications, manufacturing
, education
, entertainment
and healthcare. Headquartered in Novato, CA, Radiant Logic has satellite offices in Chicago
and Washington, DC, and distribution channels throughout the world.
technology boom. First round funding came from venture capitalists Sofinova, Doll Capital, and Innovacom.
Prompt and Samuelson found success in their previous U.S.-based company, Matesys Corp., which they founded in 1991. It was the first company to offer Microsoft Windows-based client/server solutions to database application developers. The company introduced one of the first visual programming tools under Windows 3.0 for the client/server market (Object View). In 1993 Matesys was acquired by Atlanta software firm KnowledgeWare
, now a part of CA Technologies.
. The new product category gained widespread attention throughout the software industry, garnering accolades and prominent customers like Compaq
, who soon implemented RadiantOne for its NonStop Himalaya server. That same year Network World
named Prompt “Networking MVP.” Industry insider Dave Kearns wrote, “By combining Lightweight Directory Access protocol, XML and SQL behind the scenes, Prompt enabled the typical browser to see personalized (via a directory protocol) database information at will while maintaining powerful security through the authentication and authorization mechanisms built in to any good directory system.” In 2004, RadiantOne VDS 4.0 was rated top virtual directory in an InfoWorld product review. In 2007, Radiant Logic was recognized by the Burton Group as the virtual directory market leader.
In April 2010, Gartner
analyst Bob Blakley noted that virtualization of both identity and context will play a vital role in the new identity infrastructure. In his report The Emerging Architecture of Identity Management, Blakley wrote that “In the first phase, production of identities will be separated from consumption of identities through the introduction of a virtual directory interface. In the second phase, applications will externalize authorization to policy decision points…which can use contextual authorization to request attributes in real time.”
In July 2010, Radiant Logic launched Context Browser, which lets users search structured information across data silos, and enables integration across specialized applications and databases. Radiant Logic also released ID-Connect, a free social networking interface based on Microsoft Silverlight that enables customizable views of system users.
In January 2011, Radiant Logic announced doubled revenue for 2010 versus 2009, with four times growth in earnings.
Demand for Identity Management and Virtual Directories continues to grow. A February 2008 Forrester Research Report titled Identity Management Market Forecast estimates that the virtual directory market will grow from $13 million in 2006 to $113 million by 2014.
software vendors, whose products work with the RadiantOne platform to create full-spectrum identity and data integration solutions. Key technology partners include CA Technologies, RSA/EMC, and Ping Identity. Radiant has also partnered with professional services organizations including Accenture
, Booz Allen Hamilton
, and Deloitte.
In 2010, Radiant Logic announced a partnership with Axiomatics to provide an authorization solution based on the XACML
standard. By externalizing context through virtualization of data and application silos, Radiant Logic enables Axiomatics to consume these contextual attributes inside XACML-based policies, providing a complete standards-based solution.
Additionally, Radiant Logic regularly produces educational webinars in conjunction with technology research and advisory firms, including Burton Group, Gartner
, and Forrester
.
Virtual Directory Server (VDS) - A virtual directory, designed to solve directory integration challenges without customization.
Virtual Directory Server-Context Edition (VDS-CE) - Radiant Logic’s flagship product is the first full-spectrum solution for identity integration and context management. Featuring a persistent cache, VDS Context Edition is designed for non-disruptive deployments in high-volume, high-complexity identity environments.
Identity Correlation and Synchronization Server (ICS) - RadiantOne ICS identifies relationships between identities represented in heterogeneous data sources. ICS builds a common identity out of multiple systems to create a unified view of identity data, eliminating user overlaps.
ID-Connect - Based on Silverlight and designed to work with Microsoft SharePoint or as a JSP flex version for any J2EE web server, ID-Connect is a social networking interface that offers user profile management, white pages, and enterprise-wide search capabilities.
Context Browser - Context Browser leverages contextual information gathered and virtualized by RadiantOne VDS Context Edition, linking structured data scattered across databases and applications and representing it in plain English sentences.
Enterprise Information Integration
Enterprise Information Integration , is a process of information integration, using data abstraction to provide a unified interface for viewing all the data within an organization, and a single set of structures and naming conventions to represent this data; the goal of EII is to get a large set of...
, Information Security
Information security
Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction....
, and Data Management
Data management
Data management comprises all the disciplines related to managing data as a valuable resource.- Overview :The official definition provided by DAMA International, the professional organization for those in the data management profession, is: "Data Resource Management is the development and execution...
. The company pioneered the development of the Virtual directory
Virtual directory
In computing, a virtual directory or virtual directory server is a software layer that delivers a single access point for identity management applications and service platforms...
in complex enterprise Identity Management
Identity management
Identity management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to the resources in that system by placing restrictions on the established identities of the individuals.Identity management is multidisciplinary and covers many...
deployments.
Radiant Logic is best known for its RadiantOne Identity and Context Virtualization platform. The software line’s flagship product is the Virtual Directory Server Context Edition (VDS-CE), which is designed specifically for deployment in high-volume, high-complexity environments. RadiantOne’s VDS acts as an abstraction layer, extracting identity and context information out of various application and data silos. By re-mapping the underlying sources and presenting the identity data in customized views for the needs of enterprise applications, RadiantOne enables authentication and fine-grained authorization for identity management and context-driven applications.
Radiant Logic’s global customer base includes many Fortune 500 companies in the fields of banking, finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
, insurance
Insurance
In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. An insurer is a company selling the...
, government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
, communications, manufacturing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
, education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, entertainment
Entertainment
Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...
and healthcare. Headquartered in Novato, CA, Radiant Logic has satellite offices in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
and Washington, DC, and distribution channels throughout the world.
History
In 1995, Radiant Logic was founded by French-American software developers Michel Prompt and Claude Samuelson, the company’s CEO and Vice President of Engineering, respectively. The company was moved to Marin County, California, in 1999 during the height of the Silicon ValleySilicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
technology boom. First round funding came from venture capitalists Sofinova, Doll Capital, and Innovacom.
Prompt and Samuelson found success in their previous U.S.-based company, Matesys Corp., which they founded in 1991. It was the first company to offer Microsoft Windows-based client/server solutions to database application developers. The company introduced one of the first visual programming tools under Windows 3.0 for the client/server market (Object View). In 1993 Matesys was acquired by Atlanta software firm KnowledgeWare
KnowledgeWare
KnowledgeWare was a software company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia co-founded by James Martin and run by Fran Tarkenton. It produced a Computer Aided Software Engineering tool called IEW...
, now a part of CA Technologies.
2001–2008
Radiant Logic’s breakthrough came in 2000, when it introduced the first virtual directoryVirtual directory
In computing, a virtual directory or virtual directory server is a software layer that delivers a single access point for identity management applications and service platforms...
. The new product category gained widespread attention throughout the software industry, garnering accolades and prominent customers like Compaq
Compaq
Compaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard....
, who soon implemented RadiantOne for its NonStop Himalaya server. That same year Network World
Network World
Network World is a weekly IT publication that provides news and information to network executives. The company is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States....
named Prompt “Networking MVP.” Industry insider Dave Kearns wrote, “By combining Lightweight Directory Access protocol, XML and SQL behind the scenes, Prompt enabled the typical browser to see personalized (via a directory protocol) database information at will while maintaining powerful security through the authentication and authorization mechanisms built in to any good directory system.” In 2004, RadiantOne VDS 4.0 was rated top virtual directory in an InfoWorld product review. In 2007, Radiant Logic was recognized by the Burton Group as the virtual directory market leader.
2008–Present
In recent years, Radiant Logic has developed products for the emerging context market in enterprise software. In 2008, Radiant Logic announced the launch of the first “context server” known as the VDS Context Edition. By extracting contextual information out of application silos, VDS Context Edition enables identity integration based on multiple application contexts across diverse data sources. In 2009, Radiant Logic released a major rollout of three products built on its RadiantOne Identity & Context platform, called the virtualization suite.In April 2010, Gartner
Gartner
Gartner, Inc. is an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. It was known as GartnerGroup until 2001....
analyst Bob Blakley noted that virtualization of both identity and context will play a vital role in the new identity infrastructure. In his report The Emerging Architecture of Identity Management, Blakley wrote that “In the first phase, production of identities will be separated from consumption of identities through the introduction of a virtual directory interface. In the second phase, applications will externalize authorization to policy decision points…which can use contextual authorization to request attributes in real time.”
In July 2010, Radiant Logic launched Context Browser, which lets users search structured information across data silos, and enables integration across specialized applications and databases. Radiant Logic also released ID-Connect, a free social networking interface based on Microsoft Silverlight that enables customizable views of system users.
In January 2011, Radiant Logic announced doubled revenue for 2010 versus 2009, with four times growth in earnings.
Demand for Identity Management and Virtual Directories continues to grow. A February 2008 Forrester Research Report titled Identity Management Market Forecast estimates that the virtual directory market will grow from $13 million in 2006 to $113 million by 2014.
Partnerships
Radiant Logic has alliances with leading identity managementIdentity management
Identity management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to the resources in that system by placing restrictions on the established identities of the individuals.Identity management is multidisciplinary and covers many...
software vendors, whose products work with the RadiantOne platform to create full-spectrum identity and data integration solutions. Key technology partners include CA Technologies, RSA/EMC, and Ping Identity. Radiant has also partnered with professional services organizations including Accenture
Accenture
Accenture plc is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the largest consulting firm in the world and is a Fortune Global 500 company. As of September 2011, the company had more than 236,000 employees across...
, Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. , or more commonly Booz Allen, is an American public consulting firm headquartered in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, with 80 other offices throughout the United States. Ralph Shrader is its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The firm was founded by Edwin Booz in...
, and Deloitte.
In 2010, Radiant Logic announced a partnership with Axiomatics to provide an authorization solution based on the XACML
XACML
XACML stands for eXtensible Access Control Markup Language. The standard defines a declarative access control policy language implemented in XML and a processing model describing how to evaluate authorization requests according to the rules defined in policies.As a published standard...
standard. By externalizing context through virtualization of data and application silos, Radiant Logic enables Axiomatics to consume these contextual attributes inside XACML-based policies, providing a complete standards-based solution.
Additionally, Radiant Logic regularly produces educational webinars in conjunction with technology research and advisory firms, including Burton Group, Gartner
Gartner
Gartner, Inc. is an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. It was known as GartnerGroup until 2001....
, and Forrester
Forrester
Forrester may refer to:* Forrester Research, a market research company* Forrester RFC, a Scottish Rugby Union football club* Forrester , people with the surname Forrester-See also:...
.
Products
Radiant Logic is known for its RadiantOne Identity and Context Virtualization Platform:Virtual Directory Server (VDS) - A virtual directory, designed to solve directory integration challenges without customization.
Virtual Directory Server-Context Edition (VDS-CE) - Radiant Logic’s flagship product is the first full-spectrum solution for identity integration and context management. Featuring a persistent cache, VDS Context Edition is designed for non-disruptive deployments in high-volume, high-complexity identity environments.
Identity Correlation and Synchronization Server (ICS) - RadiantOne ICS identifies relationships between identities represented in heterogeneous data sources. ICS builds a common identity out of multiple systems to create a unified view of identity data, eliminating user overlaps.
ID-Connect - Based on Silverlight and designed to work with Microsoft SharePoint or as a JSP flex version for any J2EE web server, ID-Connect is a social networking interface that offers user profile management, white pages, and enterprise-wide search capabilities.
Context Browser - Context Browser leverages contextual information gathered and virtualized by RadiantOne VDS Context Edition, linking structured data scattered across databases and applications and representing it in plain English sentences.