Now Available Both On-Premise and Via the Cloud
TYSONS CORNER, Va.,
April 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a
leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, today
announced the availability of the on-premise version of
MicroStrategy Usher™, a powerful platform designed to provide
advanced security and analytics for business processes and systems
across the enterprise.
The product replaces traditional passwords with biometric mobile
identity and multi-factor authentication, and offers streamlined
security administration capabilities. MicroStrategy Usher features
include digital badges, geo-fenced and time-fenced access
restrictions, and Touch ID access on mobile devices.
User-friendly and quick-to-deploy, MicroStrategy Usher enables
an enterprise to:
- Secure physical entryways with digital keys that can access
leading PACS systems, including Lenel, Honeywell, Datawatch,
Paxton, and S2 Security.
- Provide a single Usher badge to enable users to log into
enterprise, cloud, and SAML 2.0-based applications. Supported
applications include Salesforce.com, Google
Apps, MicroStrategy, and Microsoft applications, among
others.
- Validate user identities in-person or over the phone with
numeric Usher codes, Bluetooth peer discovery, and fractal-based
sight codes.
- Enable users to conveniently access workstations by low energy
Bluetooth or by scanning a QR code, eliminating the need to enter a
username and password.
- Gain a near real-time, 360-degree view into identity activities
to detect anomalies and abnormal usage patterns in order to enhance
enterprise risk management, streamline business processes, and
reduce fraud.
The MicroStrategy Usher platform also offers a robust Software
Development Kit (SDK), enabling developers to build Usher security
capabilities – including any of Usher's logical or physical access
functionalities – into their existing mobile applications, web
applications, and enterprise software packages. With the Usher SDK,
homegrown applications can implement sophisticated functionalities
like step-up authentication to restrict sensitive information from
unauthorized access or approval workflows that require biometric
validation to help ensure validity of the approver. The ability to
perform authentication and identity verification tasks unlocks the
door to making existing applications vastly more functional to user
bases. In this way, MicroStrategy Usher secures enterprise assets
and information, whether through the standard Usher interfaces or
within any application of the enterprise. The Usher SDK is
available from the Usher Developer Portal at
http://developer.usher.com.
Already available in the cloud, Usher can now be installed
on-premise to meet business requirements when data must live behind
the corporate firewall. On-premise installation deploys the
complete Usher solution to the enterprise, including the Usher
Security Server, the Usher Network Manager administration app, and
Usher Analytics. End users of an on-premise Usher deployment
acquire applications from the public app stores. To get started
with MicroStrategy Usher and set up Usher identities for your
organization,
visit: http://www.microstrategy.com/us/security.
Leading organizations that have chosen MicroStrategy Usher
include SenHeng Electric subsidiary Blackbox BI Consultancy,
Georgetown University, global incubator
1776, and Saudi Arabia Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Our business at SenHeng is to create a unique customer
experience with our products and services and that is our key
differentiator in the market," said KH Lim, Founder of SenHeng
Electric Sdn Bhd. "Based on our successful deployment of
MicroStrategy's analytics and mobile technologies as cloud-based
analytics solutions, it made sense for us to select MicroStrategy
Usher as an enterprise security offering for today's
security-critical environment. MicroStrategy Usher will be used to
access business processes and applications across the enterprise,
replacing keycards and passwords with mobile identity badges
securely delivered on smartphones. An Usher badge will be used to
identify both SenHeng Electric's customers as well as SenHeng
mobile service's customers. Having a single MicroStrategy platform
for analytics, mobile and identity management will help us create a
new, valuable customer experience."
"We wanted a more secure and efficient method for our students
and administrators to log into university websites and web apps
than the traditional user name and password," said Marty Johnson, Senior Director of Identity,
Collaboration, Mobile, and GOCard at Georgetown University.
"We have deployed Usher, which integrates with our Shibboleth
single sign-on system and allows our university population to
securely sign in to any Georgetown
website by simply scanning a QR code with their mobile phone,
eliminating the need for passwords. This Spring semester, we are
also working closely with MicroStrategy and the Usher product team
to design a solution to address our costly password reset
problem. Once that work is completed, we expect to see a
significantly reduced number of help desk requests for locked user
accounts and, as a result, to reap substantial cost savings."
"At 1776, we are in the business of identifying
transformational, disruptive startups that can change the world,"
said Stephanie Vidikan, Director of
Operations at 1776. "MicroStrategy's Usher is one of those
products. Startups at 1776's Washington,
D.C. location can use Usher 'keys' on their mobile phones to
unlock doors, elevators, and gateways. We are excited to see how
Usher's features will reinvent how companies manage access to their
physical spaces."
About MicroStrategy Incorporated
Founded in 1989,
MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a leading worldwide provider of
enterprise software platforms. The Company's mission is to
provide enterprise analytics, mobility, and security platforms that
are flexible, powerful, scalable, and user-friendly. To learn more,
visit MicroStrategy online, and follow us on Facebook and
Twitter.
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy 9s, MicroStrategy Analytics
Platform, MicroStrategy Mobile, and MicroStrategy Usher are either
trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated
in the United States and certain
other countries. Other product and company names mentioned
herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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Contact:
Claudia
Cahill
MicroStrategy Incorporated
703-270-2207
ccahill@microstrategy.com
Dana Zemack
SutherlandGold
646-779-0220
usher@sutherlandgold.com
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