ABOUT
Company Overview
Omnibond Systems is a software development and support firm specializing in open systems, midrange and mainframe middleware for network infrastructure and security.
The company began in 1999 when the Clemson University Research Foundation (in South Carolina) recognized significant advancements by the university's IT department in network connectivity across IBM mainframe, UNIX and Linux platforms. The Foundation sponsored key developers to incubate their solutions, spinning off an independent venture named Omnibond Systems LLC. Since that time, the company has steadily evolved, honing its product focus on software that mediates between network systems and applications.
The company's first product, AuthServ (Authentication Server), was closely integrated with eDirectory™, the popular solution from Novell® that was establishing directory services as a new essential ingredient for the enterprise.
Less than a year after it was formed, Omnibond Systems was commissioned by Novell to integrate AuthServ into its growing focus on identity and access management tools. So began a close and innovative partnership in software design, development and support for Novell. Today, the company continues as an integral contributor to the Novell vision for extending all computing platforms into the open systems enterprise. Its expertise in large systems network connectivity is evident in numerous software drivers and scripting APIs for Novell Identity Manager and, more recently, Sentinel, the new security event and information management solution from Novell.
Milestones
1999 – Omnibond Systems adapts AuthServ into NDS-AS 3.0, a Novell product.
2002 – Novell commissions Omnibond Systems to overhaul NDS-AS, resulting in functionality that enables eDirectory synchronization with Windows, UNIX Linux and IBM mainframe; it also offers an API for custom development.
2004 – Novell works with Omnibond Systems to integrate DirXML, a protocol for synchronizing user data among disparate directory and database systems, with NDS-AS for a new comprehensive identity management solution branded Nsure Identity Manager 2.0. The product offers bidirectional communication between eDirectory and numerous platforms. Omnibond Systems also harnesses the original scalablity of AuthServ, streamlining it into a subcomponent of the new Nsure architecture and renaming it the Fan-out Driver.
Later that year, Omnibond Systems contributes to the Novell release of Identity Manager 3.0 (dropping Nsure from the name), which includes improved provisioning/workflow, a Web-based user application, and Designer.
2005 – Novell, with collaboration from Omnibond Systems, releases Identity Manager 3.5, adding user self-registration and job scheduling, improving password management, workflow, policies and roles support.
2007 – Omnibond Systems begins development of a mainframe software driver for Sentinel, the security event monitoring solution recently acquired by Novell.
2008 –Novell, with collaboration from Omnibond Systems, releases Identity Manager 3.5, adding user self-registration and job scheduling, improving password management, workflow, policies and roles support.