Kantega

Infobox_Company
company_
company_name = Kantega
company_type = Private company
company_slogan = User friendly, secure and reliable IT solutions.
foundation = Norway (2003)
location = Oslo, Norway
key_people = Jon Oyvind Eriksen, CEO
num_employees = ~60 (2006)
industry = Computer software
products = Kantega Secure Identity
PKI and Web Services
revenue = profit$8 million USD (2006)
homepage = [http://www.kantega.no/ www.kantega.no]

"Kantega" is a Norwegian software corporation founded in 2003 with headquarters located at IT-Fornebu, close to Oslo. Kantega primarily develop identity management and digital signature solutions based on PKI and Web Services technology.

Kantega is a sponsor member of Liberty Alliance and WS-I.

History

Kantega was founded as an employee-owned company in 2003. However, the company can trace it roots back to Taskon — a Norwegian IT company founded in 1986. This company developed its own object orientation methodology (OORam) and OO design tools, which had some international success. Taskon contributed its object-oriented methodology to OMG during the standardization process of UML in a joint standards proposal with IBM and Ptech. Taskon was later acquired, and after a few mergers became part of the nordic IT company "Mogul Group" (publ.) in 2000.

In 2003 the Norwegian part of the group was divested and reestablished as Taskon, before it changed its name to Kantega. The company became the first Norwegian member of WS-I in 2002 and Liberty Alliance in 2005.

Financial Times named Kantega on its 2007 list of the 100 Best Workplaces in Europe.

Kantega's technology

Kantega uses a variety of technology standards to secure data, such as PKI, WS-Security and SAML (federated identity).

Products

Kantega sells a variety of software products, as part of its overall security package.
*Kantega Secure Identity (KSI)
*Kantega Digital Signature
*Kantega Secure Forms

External links

* [http://www.kantega.no Kantega's Official Website]