Waveset Technologies was a privately held identity-management software vendor based in Austin, Texas, and an early portfolio company of Lightspeed Venture Partners. Its flagship product, Lighthouse, automated user provisioning, password management, and identity brokering to govern access to enterprise systems and data. Sun Microsystems announced its acquisition of Waveset in 2003 and completed it in December 2003; the Lighthouse technology became the basis of Sun Identity Manager and was later carried into Oracle's identity portfolio. Waveset has not existed as an independent company since the acquisition and publishes no active website, developer portal, or API surface today.
Waveset is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Identity and Access Management, Provisioning, Security, and Enterprise Software.
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name: Waveset
description: Waveset Technologies was a privately held identity-management software vendor based in Austin, Texas, and an
early portfolio company of Lightspeed Venture Partners. Its flagship product, Lighthouse, automated user provisioning, password
management, and identity brokering to govern access to enterprise systems and data. Sun Microsystems announced its acquisition
of Waveset in 2003 and completed it in December 2003; the Lighthouse technology became the basis of Sun Identity Manager
and was later carried into Oracle's identity portfolio. Waveset has not existed as an independent company since the acquisition
and publishes no active website, developer portal, or API surface today.
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x-acquired-by: Sun Microsystems
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maintainers:
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email: info@apis.io
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