| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software Computer companies of the United States Windows software Identity management systems Virtualization software |
| Founded | Florida, United States |
| Founder(s) | Lawrence Aucoin John Maring |
| Headquarters | Land O'Lakes, Florida, United States |
| Key people | Lawrence Aucoin (Managing Partner) John Maring (Managing Partner) Michael Brengs (Managing Partner) Nada Jumpter (Chief Software Architect) |
| Products | Virtual Identity Server (VIS) |
| Services | The .NET Virtual Directory |
| Website | www.optimalidm.com |
Optimal IdM, LLC [1] is an American company that provides global enterprise computer software for identity management related solutions. Headquartered in Land O'Lakes, Florida United States, Optimal IdM provides sales and services through regional offices across the United States and a growing network of resellers and distributors. Optimal IdM's customers include Fortune 1000 companies, as well as, Federal, State and Local Government agencies in more than 12 countries on 4 continents. Founded in 2005, Optimal IdM is a Private LLC which has been profitable in every quarter since inception and has never taken any outside investment money.
Optimal IdM's flagship product, the Virtual Identity Server (VIS) is a 100% Microsoft .NET LDAP virtual directory and is the only virtual directory of its kind that is certified on both Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The Virtual Identity Server provides LDAP enabled applications with a single consolidated/joined view of one multiple data stores. This enables LDAP applications to access users and groups from multiple sources, such as Active Directory or other LDAP data stores as well as SQL and Oracle databases.
Optimal IdM is best known for quickly becoming the industry leader in the virtual directory market by pioneering new features such as:
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In 2005, Optimal IdM was founded by two identity management American experts, Larry Aucoin and John Maring as Managing Partners [2]. The company initially started as an expert-level consulting services organization specializing in identity management related deployment services. Within the first year, a key third Managing Partner was added, Mike Brengs [3]. All three partners previously worked together at Oracle, Oblix and OpenNetwork Technologies [4], where they became known as leaders in the identity management and SSO industries.
Although Optimal IdM started as a consulting services organization, software development was underway during the early stages in what has now produced their flagship product, Virtual Identity Server (VIS). In September 2006, Nada Jumper joined the team in running the software development efforts and was appointed Chief Software Architect[5].
In 2007, version 1.0 of the Virtual Identity Server (VIS) software product was released to internal existing customers. At the Directory Experts Conference (now known as The Experts Conference in March 2008 in Chicago, IL, version 2.0 of VIS was released to the world. At that time, and still to this day, the VIS solution was the first and only virtual directory on the market to be built entirely in the Microsoft .NET Framework. Also in 2008, VIS for SharePoint was released which was the first virtual directory to market to include a deep integration with SharePoint.
In August 2010, another major release of the Virtual Identity Server (VIS) software product was released. This released supported not only the very latest Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0, but also, was delivered in both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Server platforms. In March 2011, VIS Federation Services, another key Microsoft integration point, was released.