A spokesman for Oblix said the Cupertino, Calif.-based company expects to announce the acquisition plan next week.
As companies deploy web services, they need to do more than manage users access to resources - they need to be able manage, secure and monitor the operations of application-to-application interactions, according to Oblix.
"The evolution of identity managment to web services management and security is a natural one that addresses problems at the CIO level," the company said in a statement.
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