Encentuate, Inc., was a privately held company that was started in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

 in 2002, but eventually based in Redwood City, California before it was acquired by IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 in 2008. It developed an identity and access management software product that was focused on enterprise single sign-on

Single sign-on

Single sign-on is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent software systems. With this property a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them...

 and integration of strong authentication

Strong authentication

Strong authentication is a notion with several unofficial definitions; is not standardized in the security literature.Often, strong authentication is associated with two-factor authentication or more generally multi-factor authentication...

 technology.

Company History

The company was founded in 2002 in Singapore by Singaporean entrepreneur Peng Tsin Ong, who also previously founded Interwoven

Interwoven

Interwoven is a line of Content Management Systems and related products. Previously a stand-alone company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA and founded in 1995, it was acquired on March 17, 2009 by Autonomy...

 and co-founded Match.com

Match.com

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. In March 2008, IBM acquired Encentuate and added its Identity and Access Management product suite to the Tivoli Software

Tivoli Software

Tivoli Software is the service management brand of the IBM Software Group. IBM purchased Austin-based Tivoli Systems, Inc. on March 4, 1996 and allowed existing executive management to operate Tivoli as a wholly owned subsidiary in the IBM Software Group...

 portfolio. IBM started the IBM Security Software Laboratory in Singapore at the same time, since the Encentuate development team was mainly based in Singapore. The product was re-branded and released in September 2008 as IBM Tivoli Access Manager

IBM Tivoli Access Manager

IBM Tivoli Access Manager is an authentication and authorization solution for corporate web services, operating systems, and existing applications...

for Enterprise Single Sign-On version 8.0.

Awards

In 2006, Encentuate, Inc., received the "Hot Companies -- 2006" Award from Info Security Products Guide, published by Silicon Valley Communications.

Encentuate, Inc. also won the SC Magazine Awards for three consecutive years:

• 2006: Best Single Sign-on and Best Two-Factor Solution
• 2007: Best Identity Management Solution
• 2008: Best Identity Management Solution and Best Multi- and Second-factor Solution

External links

• Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On (TAM E-SSO) product home