COMMUNICATOR INC APPLIES EXPERIENCE PROVIDING SECURE BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS TO PUBLIC SECTOR: Wall Street Firms and Government Agencies on Common Ground For Providing Security and Interoperability to Information and Communication Services

Communicator Inc is now helping government agencies and the military take advantage of its experience in helping many financial services organizations communicate and collaborate effectively. Communicators identity management, messaging and content aggregation services enable Fortune 1000 companies and cross-enterprise communities to securely communicate, collaborate and share information electronically.

White Plains, NY (PRWEB) May 14, 2003 - Communicator Inc is now helping government agencies and the military take advantage of its experience in helping many financial services organizations communicate and collaborate effectively. Communicators identity management, messaging and content aggregation services enable Fortune 1000 companies and cross-enterprise communities to securely communicate, collaborate and share information electronically.

Communicator Inc has established a Washington DC office lead by Sheila Lockhart to conduct business development in the public sector. Communicator also has hired Cassidy & Associates, a Washington, DC Government Relations firm, to help introduce the companys solutions to the government market.

Communicator Inc Hosted Military / Wall Street Symposium on Shared Issues

Communicator Inc recently hosted a symposium involving the US Navy and Marine Corps, the New York Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to discuss the similarity of goals and challenges regarding secure communications and collaboration between the private and public sector. These mutually important themes include: the need for greater decentralized decision-making employing a variety of communication methods and networked applications; the value of a federated approach to loosely coupling initiatives and information across organizations; and the essential requirement to agree on organizational conventions and technical standards to enable interoperability.

The symposium also highlighted that both financial services and government organizations increasingly are relying on commercial, off-the-shelf solutions (COTS) and third-party service providers as opposed to custom-built and self-managed applications. Private sector investment in recent years has enabled commercially-available, secure communications and collaboration solutions to meet the requirements of government, allow for fast deployment and reduce the total cost-of-ownership. A summary of findings from the symposium is available at www.communicator.com/Govt SymposiumWhite Paper.pdf

Federated Approach Facilitates Organizational Coordination and Interoperability

Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, participants in the symposium, also are part of SecuritiesHub. This is a consortium of eight investment banks that use Communicator Incs services to provide thousands of their common customers with one-click access to multiple Web sites and commingled investment information, as well as securely communicate and collaborate across enterprises. SecuritiesHub recently was highlighted in an article in Waters Magazine, a premier financial services publication, as a consortium successfully applying a federated model to identity management. The article, Building Federated Identities," is available at http://www.communicatorinc.com/Waters_Apr2003.pdf

We designed our Hub solutions to enable business communities to interoperate electronically, whether those organizations are competitors with common customers or are all working toward a single goal," said Communicator Inc CEO Leo Schlinkert. In the financial services world, each company has its own directory of employees and customers that it cannot share, but these companies still want to make it easy for their common customers to access information. Our federated approach makes that interoperability happen. A similar situation exists in the public sector, where Communicators technology and services can bring separate agencies together to help them effectively share information and communicate among themselves."

The SecuritiesHub and Communicator Inc identity management models make use of an open standard called Liberty Alliance. On March 5, it was announced that the General Services Administration and the U.S. Department of Defense have joined Liberty Alliance in its pursuit to develop open, interoperable standards. More information is available in the Liberty Alliance Press Room section at http://www.projectliberty.org/.

Communicator Inc Increases Presence with Public Sector Decision-Makers

Sheila Lockhart has joined Communicator Inc as Head of Business Development for the Public Sector. Ms. Lockhart has 20 years of experience, most recently at Northrop Grumman, selling and marketing leading-edge products and services to the federal government. She will draw upon her extensive track record of building in-depth relationships with executive-level decision makers, expertise in developing channel sales via integrators and business partners, and familiarity with the federal government procurement process.

Communicator Inc also has hired Cassidy & Associates to facilitate the introduction of the companys solutions to the government market. Using its deep experience with Federal/Public Sector organizational requirements, the government relations agency will introduce the Communicator solutions to individuals concerned with secure communications and collaboration in Congress, the White House and Executive branch departments, and Federal and independent regulatory agencies.

The issues of critical information sharing, security and interoperability are the same in both the public and private sector," said Marty Russo, President & Chief Operating Officer of Cassidy & Associates. Seeing how Communicator brought the disparate groups on Wall Street together to accomplish these tasks demonstrates the challenges both sectors face. Commercial off-the-shelf solutions are clearly available. For example, the new U.S. Department of Homeland Security needs to quickly increase the coordination among twenty-two formerly separate agencies. A federated approach, based on off-the-shelf software that an agency can deploy quickly and at a lower-cost, could be very effective."

About Communicator Inc
Communicator Inc provides communication, collaboration and content solutions that address the business and technology challenges of the extended enterprise. Organizations in financial services, government and life sciences, among other industries, often have difficulty securing their communications and access to information across disparate systems, and managing identities of individuals, employees, customers and partners. In addition, multi-enterprise communities introduce security and compliance challenges that fundamentally cannot be managed internally by any one of the participating organizations. Communicator Inc, through its technology and managed services approach to federated identity management, content aggregation and real-time messaging, acts as a neutral third-party, connecting the right people to the right information in real-time. Communicator Inc is a privately held company headquartered in White Plains, New York. For more information, visit www.communicator.com, call 914-872-2800 or email info@communicator.com.

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