TOM KEMP'S CENTRIFY BLOG

What Another Great Year!

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Last year I wrote a blog post what a great year we had last fiscal year. Well now that another fiscal year has gone by (our fiscal year ends June 30), I am pleased to report to our employees, customers and partners that we had another great year!

The high-level summary is that Centrify is coming off of another year of continuing triple-digit growth in revenue and customers for the fiscal year. We increased sales into Global 2000 companies; the Centrify customer base more than doubled to over 500 organizations in all sectors and includes implementation by 38% of the Fortune 50.

In terms of nitty-gritty details, during the year Centrify accomplishments included:

• More than doubled our install base to over 500 customers, including recent customer win Société Générale, and grew our install base to over 38% of Fortune 50
• Expanded the Centrify management team, thereby increasing our depth in engineering and broadening sales management with executives experienced in all phases of an organization's growth
• Increased our market-leading platform support to over 135 flavors of UNIX, Linux and Mac OS and added new application support such as SAP R/3
• Extended product distribution to over 45 system integrators and OEM partners
• Achieved Windows Server 2008 certification
• Sponsored industry organizations committed to solving customer problems:
• MIT Kerberos Consortium to provide leadership in the development and adoption of Kerberos to solve authentication challenges in heterogeneous environments
• Enterprise Desktop Alliance, which is focused on making it easy to deploy, integrate and manage Macs in a Windows-based environment
• Payment Card Industry - Software Vendors Alliance Gold sponsorship
• Recent recognition of Centrify includes Linux Magazine identifying Centrify as one of "The Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008." In the last year, Centrify won industry awards in several categories including:
• SearchEnterpriseLinux.com "Security Product of the Year"
• Windows IT Pro "Editors' Best Gold: Interoperability"
• Info Security Products Guide "Best Identity Management Software"

The bottom line is we are quite pleased with our market traction and the accelerating adoption of our solutions by leading organizations around the world. I would like to thank our employees, customers and partners for helping to make this happen.

In the new fiscal year we are looking forward to continuing to surpass our customers' expectations with our comprehensive, industry-leading solutions for cross-platform identity management, innovative technology, and second-to-none services and support. We believe with the industry's largest team devoted exclusively to developing solutions and services that extend Active Directory to non-Microsoft platforms, and with new solutions and major updates to existing products to be released over the next 12 months, Centrify is well positioned to maintain its leading industry position.

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