Radiant Logic

Radiant Logic, Inc. founded in 2000, is a provider of virtual directory solutions for Identity Management and Enterprise Information Integration. Headquartered in Novato, CA, Radiant Logic has sales offices and distribution channels throughout the world.

History

Radiant Logic was founded by its CEO, Michel Prompt, and Claude Samuelson, PhD in 2000. Previously, they founded Matesys, the first company to offer Windows-based client/server solutions to database application developers. Matesys was later acquired by KnowledgeWare.

Prior to Matesys, Prompt was a core developer in the database group of the (General Comprehensive Operating System) GCOS 7.0 for Bull Systems. Samuelson has more than 20 years of experience in directory services, databases and development tools. The two came together to pioneer the virtual directory category in 2000 after identifying the need for an infrastructure linking identity management projects to internal data sources.

Radiant Logic, Inc. is the developer of virtualization solutions and enables organizations to fully realize the benefits of portal, identity, enterprise information integration and e-business initiatives by leveraging all data, wherever it exists. Radiant Logic's solutions have been used to solve tough identity and data integration problems at companies around the world. Companies and organization use the RadiantOne™ solution to speed deployment, solve integration challenges and cut costs for identity management projects. Felix Gaehtgens, senior analyst at Kuppinger Cole and Partners, said, "We need to move the discussion of virtual directories beyond their pure technical capabilities, and focus more on how they radically simplify identity integration, which is one of the big challenges faced by all identity management teams. The technology has matured significantly over the years as more enterprises are adopting directory virtualization every day, and today's deployments are focused to solve those integration challenges quickly and efficiently.” 

The RadiantOne platform consists of three key components; the Virtual Directory Server (VDS), the Identity Correlation and Synchronization Server (ICS) and the Virtual Context Server (VCS).

Radiant Logic’s flagship product, the RadiantOne VDS functions as an abstraction layer between applications, identities, and data repositories. VDS re-maps the underlying sources and presents the identity data in views that are tailored and optimized for the specific needs of security applications for centralized authentication and authorization across disparate systems. Virtual directories provide connectivity that is generally less intrusive and does not require that changes be made to the underlying source. Therefore, virtual directory deployments can be more politically palatable than meta-directory deployments in many cases," said Gerry Gebel, senior analyst at Burton Group. A Burton Group Research Report identified RadiantOne as the leading product to solve complex identity integration problems, and offering significant advantages in many areas including Web Services, complex object relationship management, and sophistication of cache and cache refresh mechanisms.

The company’s RadiantOne ICS simplifies managing the life cycle of a user's digital identity by providing identity synchronization. ICS builds a common identity and provides a global profile out of existing identity sources, providing metadirectory-type functionality with easy integration of disparate data sources.

The latest Radiant Logic product, VCS is the next evolution of the RadiantOne virtualization platform. VCS enables integration of business processes by extracting contextual information buried in application silos and dynamically generating English sentences out of this application metadata. Those sentences are then organized into meaningful views acting as contextual links across business processes. This enables low-level information to be searched, retrieved and updated at the source-level within the existing integration process.

Partnerships with identity management software vendors - CA and RSA/EMC - along with professional services organizations - Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton and Deloitte - demonstrate the broad impact of Identity and Context Virtualization on the market. Demand for Identity Management and Virtual Directories continues to grow. A February 2008 Forrester Research Report titled, Identity Management Market Forecast, estimates that the virtual directory market will grow from $13 million in 2006 to $113 million by 2014. 

Timeline of Products and Services

In January 2000, Radiant Logic created a new product category by introducing the first virtual directory. By October 2000, the company released RadiantOne 3.0, leveraging both virtualization and synchronization to provide “On Demand” directory services.

In 2001 Radiant introduced its RadiantOne Context and Coordination Server. The server is a metadirectory that at its core is a relational database engine which aggregates and synchronizes data from directories, applications and other sources. The server uses a directory front end merely as a presentation layer to give end users a familiar hierarchical design for searching data, much like Windows Explorer.

RadiantOne VDS 4.0 was rated top virtual directory in an InfoWorld product review in September 2004. Radiant Logic believed context-driven identity is so important that Radiant built an entire virtual directory business for database and object relationships, associations and metadata. By May 2005, Radiant Logic was given approval of its patent on directory virtualization.

In June 2006, Radiant Logic released RadiantOne ICS 5.0, which addresses the growing demand for a common global identification system capable of linking and creating dynamic profiles for identities stored in multiple directories and application silos.

In 2007, Radiant Logic announced 100 percent revenue growth and was recognized by the Burton Group as the virtual directory market leader. In June 2008, the company released RadiantOne VDS 5.0, simplifying the deployment of identity integration for Web Single Sign-On and Federation.

Radiant Logic announced its first-ever virtual context server in September 2008 at DEMOfall 08. RadiantOne VCS expands upon Radiant Logic’s identity virtualization platform underpinned by RadiantOne VDS. By extracting contextual information buried in application silos, VCS enables better integration of business processes.