[GOLD]
RSA Access Manager
RSA

RSA Access Manager, formerly known as ClearTrust tackles the enormously complex challenge of Web access management, with single sign-on and other key access management features for complex internal, external and extranet environments. Users were particularly impressed with its integration with associated products and directories, its scalability across the extended enterprise and ease of use.

[SILVER]
Sun Microsystems Identity Manager
Sun Microsystems

Sun's Identity Manager, as well as companion products Identity Compliance Manager and Role Manager, was second by the narrowest of margins. Its role-based user provisioning and other capabilities make it a powerful tool for identity management and auditing across the enterprise and extranet. It earned its highest reader marks in extensibility and end user transpa...

[BRONZE]
Citrix Password Manager
Citrix Systems

Citrix Password Manager, now bundled as a feature of application virtualization product, helps organizations tackle the persistent headache of dealing with hundreds and thousands of user passwords, including self-service to ease help desk burdens. Readers gave it solid grades in all categories, including end user transparency, scalability, and ease of installation, configuration and administration.

[TRENDS]
"Suites aren't as integrated as many clients believe. There is considerable effort on the part of suite vendors to provide better integration. Most suites (exception is Novell) were acquired product by product over time, so many of them have completely different underlying architectures. Enterprises tend to be responsive to the suite idea because of the relationship it creates with the vendor." -- Earl Perkins, research vice president, Gartner