The award recognizes outstanding projects as well as innovations and additional developments of standards. Directly from the awards page:
In the category “Best IAM Project in Cloud Computing”, […]The award was received by Piaggio Group of Italy for a hosted IAM solution based on products by Engiweb and focusing on defined, enterprise-wide business processes […] Both the number of nominees for the European Identity Award 2010 and the quality of the project submitted far surpassed last year. This is seen by Kuppinger Cole as a general sign of increasing maturity in IAM and GRC solutions. Especially notable was the number of nominations in the category “Cloud Computing”, a trend that the analyst group feels will be sure to continue over the next few years.
During the event Piaggio’s representative, Lorenzo Mastropietro, presented the company’s customer case explaining that Piaggio’s aim when they started was that of having a classic Identity Management project and from the beginning they had a clear vision of their business needs. Thus, even if the main targets were Access governance and Compliance improvements,
Lorenzo highlighted how even the “basic” password reset functionality was sufficient to justify project investments. As a matter of fact, he is now using these early successful results to support internal marketing activities, in order to more fully involve all stakeholders and gain more support for future development.Furthermore, thanks to the IM outsourced project, Piaggio does not need internal staff to execute IM operations and does not spend time and resources for its maintenance. The implemented solution makes it possible to delegate a big part of the ICT activities to the Outsourcer, allowing Piaggio to concentrate on aspects linked to business. (policy definition, workflows, role engineering, etc. …).
