Western & Southern is working with Deloitte on its enterprise roles management initiative to automate the company's compliance processes.

"The amount of time and energy required by companies to achieve compliance with a host of regulatory requirements is growing exponentially," said Lyle Carlson, Director at Deloitte & Touche LLP. "Establishing a roles-based infrastructure is a smart way for clients to simplify and automate much of their compliance management."

Instead of increasing staff to manage compliance reporting, monitoring and auditing, Western & Southern chose to automate many of its processes. The added flexibility from automation helps the company to maintain its superior reputation and rapid growth rate.

"Novell offers a cost-effective, integrated suite of products across the entire identity management spectrum," said Mark W. Pfefferman, assistant vice president and director, Identity & Access Management, Western & Southern Financial Group. "Novell has a good vision for what we are trying to accomplish, and we found that Novell Access Governance Suite fills an important niche in the market."

As the foundation of its identity management platform, Western & Southern uses Novell Identity Manager to automatically synchronize user identity information across multiple systems including Novell eDirectory, Microsoft* Active Directory* and Microsoft Exchange. In the past, manual provisioning processes could often take up to a week. Now the IT team can provision new users with access to everything they need in less than a day.

The combination of Novell Identity Manager and Novell Access Governance Suite helps Western & Southern map business roles to IT entitlements, allowing the company to provision access to systems and resources based on the user's role in the organization. The company can then certify to auditors that the appropriate roles and entitlements are in place according to internal policies and external regulations.

"While compliance management is complex and necessary, it doesn't have to be a costly burden in this rapidly changing economic environment," said Justin Steinman, Vice President of Solution and Product Marketing at Novell. "Using Novell solutions to automate provisioning processes and monitor user access rights is a cost effective way for Western & Southern to meet these goals."

About Western & Southern Financial Group

Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern) is a Cincinnati-based diversified family of financial services companies with assets owned, managed and under our care in excess of $42 billion as of Dec. 31, 2008. A Fortune 500 company, Western & Southern has received A.M. Best's highest rating of A++ Superior for financial strength, Standard & Poor's AA+ rating (one of the nine highest-rated life insurance groups in the world) and is consistently recognized by Moody's and Fitch for financial strength and sound management. With a heritage dating to 1888, the group's affiliates include The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company; Western-Southern Life Assurance Company; Capital Analysts Incorporated;1, 2 Columbus Life Insurance Company; Eagle Realty Group, LLC; Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.;1 Fort Washington Savings Company;3 IFS Financial Services, Inc.; Integrity Life Insurance Company; The Lafayette Life Insurance Company; National Integrity Life Insurance Company; Touchstone Advisors, Inc.;1 and Touchstone Securities, Inc.2 For more information, visit www.westernsouthern.com. Western & Southern is the title sponsor of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open tennis tournaments.

1 A registered investment advisor.

2 A registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC.

3 Member FDIC.

Ratings refer to the financial strength of the insurance company and not to the safety, stability or performance of any investment product.

About Novell

Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux* platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com.

Novell is a registered trademark and eDirectory is a trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

*All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

About Deloitte

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Western & Southern is working with Deloitte on its enterprise roles management initiative to automate the company's compliance processes.

"The amount of time and energy required by companies to achieve compliance with a host of regulatory requirements is growing exponentially," said Lyle Carlson, Director at Deloitte & Touche LLP. "Establishing a roles-based infrastructure is a smart way for clients to simplify and automate much of their compliance management."

Instead of increasing staff to manage compliance reporting, monitoring and auditing, Western & Southern chose to automate many of its processes. The added flexibility from automation helps the company to maintain its superior reputation and rapid growth rate.

"Novell offers a cost-effective, integrated suite of products across the entire identity management spectrum," said Mark W. Pfefferman, assistant vice president and director, Identity & Access Management, Western & Southern Financial Group. "Novell has a good vision for what we are trying to accomplish, and we found that Novell Access Governance Suite fills an important niche in the market."

As the foundation of its identity management platform, Western & Southern uses Novell Identity Manager to automatically synchronize user identity information across multiple systems including Novell eDirectory(TM), Microsoft* Active Directory* and Microsoft Exchange. In the past, manual provisioning processes could often take up to a week. Now the IT team can provision new users with access to everything they need in less than a day.

The combination of Novell Identity Manager and Novell Access Governance Suite helps Western & Southern map business roles to IT entitlements, allowing the company to provision access to systems and resources based on the user's role in the organization. The company can then certify to auditors that the appropriate roles and entitlements are in place according to internal policies and external regulations.

"While compliance management is complex and necessary, it doesn't have to be a costly burden in this rapidly changing economic environment," said Justin Steinman, Vice President of Solution and Product Marketing at Novell. "Using Novell solutions to automate provisioning processes and monitor user access rights is a cost effective way for Western & Southern to meet these goals."

About Western & Southern Financial Group

Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern) is a Cincinnati-based diversified family of financial services companies with assets owned, managed and under our care in excess of $42 billion as of Dec. 31, 2008. A Fortune 500 company, Western & Southern has received A.M. Best's highest rating of A++ Superior for financial strength, Standard & Poor's AA+ rating (one of the nine highest-rated life insurance groups in the world) and is consistently recognized by Moody's and Fitch for financial strength and sound management. With a heritage dating to 1888, the group's affiliates include The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company; Western-Southern Life Assurance Company; Capital Analysts Incorporated;(1, 2) Columbus Life Insurance Company; Eagle Realty Group, LLC; Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.;(1) Fort Washington Savings Company;(3) IFS Financial Services, Inc.; Integrity Life Insurance Company; The Lafayette Life Insurance Company; National Integrity Life Insurance Company; Touchstone Advisors, Inc.;(1) and Touchstone Securities, Inc.(2) For more information, visit www.westernsouthern.com. Western & Southern is the title sponsor of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open tennis tournaments.

    1. A registered investment advisor.
    2. A registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC.

    3. Member FDIC.

Ratings refer to the financial strength of the insurance company and not to the safety, stability or performance of any investment product.

About Novell

Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux* platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com.

Novell is a registered trademark and eDirectory is a trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. *All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

About Deloitte

As used in this document, "Deloitte" means Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Deloitte Services LP, subsidiaries of Deloitte LLP. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries.

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http://www.novell.com

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"Open source software continues to gain momentum as a robust, cost-effective solution for businesses of all sizes," said Tech Data Vice President, Software Product Marketing Stacy Nethercoat. "The challenge users face, however, is the limited availability and awareness of all the innovative open source business applications in the market, like business intelligence, content management and data backup. These solutions make open source more viable for business use. Through Open Tech, Tech Data will enable the ISVs developing these applications and the resellers supporting the IT solutions needs of end users nationwide to partner with one another to capitalize on the growing demand for open source."

Open Tech builds upon Tech Data's extensive experience supporting open source providers like Novell and Red Hat. That experience includes helping these open source vendors grow their businesses through the channel by recruiting new resellers to deploy their solutions to SMBs, large enterprises, government agencies, educational institutions and healthcare facilities.

"Today, IT is all about cost reduction and performance optimization and Tech Data recognizes that," said Steve Hale, vice president, global data center channel, Novell. "The SUSE Linux platform, combined with Novell's entire product portfolio, empowers companies to build, manage, secure and measure mission-critical applications with a low cost of ownership. Additionally, software appliances built on Linux, with the SUSE Appliance Program, are helping ISVs enter new markets. Novell is pleased to support Open Tech with a strong portfolio of solutions and dedicated Novell PartnerNet training programs to enable developers and resellers to become more profitable."

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