Founded in 2002, 9Star Research, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA. The team at 9Star Research, Inc. is leading the industry in the area of Federated Identity and Access Management, Enterprise Directories, Group/VO and Privilege Management, Application/Data Integration Middleware, ISO Registeries and Repositories, Grid Computing and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). The company is committed to making substantial impact in the marketplace by providing innovative business and technical solutions and services. Alliances with leading academic institutions, government agencies coupled with our industry experience enables us to meet and exceed customer expectations. 9Star Research Inc is focused on delivering network centric, open standards based software tools and services to business, academic, non-profit and healthcare institutions worldwide.
	Core technology focus areas at 9Star Research include:
	Federated identity and access management Identity provisioning, integration and synchronization Person registry and directory servers Group, roles, vo and privilege management EAI middleware Federated ISO Registeries and Repositories
	These core technologies are designed to enable interoperability within and across campus/enterprise boundaries in a secure fashion without imposing a single vendor solution. Our expertise and experience has helped customers in implementing solutions that enable sharing and integration of disparate information sources in a secure federated multi-institution collaborative business and campus environment.