San Diego, CA, September 26, 2006 - Cafésoft announced today that the Panda Restaurant Group selected the company's Cams web single sign-on security middleware solution to protect the company's web sites. Panda has successfully deployed Cams to secure all mission critical web applications and files, which are accessed internally and externally by employees, customers and business partners.
"Panda's selection of Cams represents a watershed event for us," said Gary Gwin, Cafésoft president and CEO. "Though we've consistently won opportunities against more expensive enterprise vendor solutions, this is the first deal where Cams has replaced an existing competitor's product. Panda chose Cams because it worked better, was more cost-effective and Cafésoft customer support was superior."
For Panda, Cafésoft implemented support for Cams web single sign-on to Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA). OWA is the web facing front-end to Microsoft Exchange that uses Windows security. Cafésoft's enhanced Cams to support Windows Impersonation, which enables real-time translation of a Cams user session to a Windows user login. This new feature also provides the same Cams web single sign-on benefit to Microsoft products such as SharePoint Portal Server and other 3rd party ISV solutions that use Windows IIS security. Additionally, Cams is being used at Panda to protect resources on J2EE servers such as BEA WebLogic and Tomcat.
"The responsive service and support we received from Cafésoft is exactly what we look for in a vendor," said Caleb Mitsvotai, executive directory of information systems development at Panda Restaurant Group. "They have been an extension of our own staff. They made the adoption and implementation of their solution easy. We truly felt like they were interested in our success."
A free Cams Tour download is available on Cafésoft's web site at http://www.cafesoft.com. The Cams Tour is the best way to learn about Cams terminology, architecture and web application security in general. Cams software licenses are available starting at $4,995. Evaluation licenses, which include access to the production Cams policy server and Cams web agents, are available for 30 days upon request.
With more than 800 locations in 34 states and 13,000 employess, the privately-held Panda Restaurant Group (http://www.pandarg.com)
Cafésoft develops and markets Cams, which is a secure, flexible and affordable web single sign-on and access management software solution. Organizations around the world use Cams to give employees, customers and partners secure access to protected web content and applications. By using Cams, customers: 1) simplify and accelerate web application security implementation and management; 2) reduce web application software lifecycle costs; and, 3) improve security compliance and accountability. Please see http://www.cafesoft.com for more information.
