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| IDC's Profile on Gemalto IDC has released an independent vendor profile on Gemalto . Entitled "Gemalto Moves Beyond Smart Cards in 2007", the report highlights the current digital revolution and how Gemalto is positioning to address new opportunities. IDC outlines how Gemalto is expanding beyond the smart card technology and deploying complete solutions for customers to ensure a safe and convenient user-experience. Gemalto's strengthening position in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) market in particular has caught IDC's interest: alongside Gemalto's other key markets in citizen identity and telecommunications, IDC has forecasted that the worldwide IAM market addressing enterprises and Internet content providers to expend from $3.4 billion in 2006 to more than $5 billion in 2010. The IDC report foresees "a wide avenue of growth for Gemalto products". Stressing that in an increasingly connected and more mobile society, Gemalto is a foreground player delivering holistic security solutions at a global scale. Gemalto's strategic position matches with network users' need for secure technology that also enhances user convenience. Its wide pool of R&D resources, with more than 1500 R&D engineers, allows Gemalto to develop expert solutions increasing the freedom of connected people to enjoy the benefits of the digital revolution. A vendor profile of Gemalto made sense because of the growing need for combined physical and logical access security across industries has been an area of increasing focus and technology development over the past 12 months, " according to Sally Hudson Research Director, Identity and Access Management Products at IDC and one of the report authors. IDC asserts that smart cards are perceived as a preferred operational platform to develop IAM solutions. The market intelligence firm considers that smart card adoption will widely increase in the banking, government and healthcare national systems through 2008. "The creation of Gemalto is certainly positive for the growth and transition of the smart card market", the report concludes. As digital interactions spread over the coming years to more and more aspects of peoples' lives, Gemalto's secure and convenient products, software and services will be in high demand in making personal digital interactions secure and easy. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |