Symas Corporation

Symas delivers open source identity and access governance and storage solutions along with unmatched support from the most qualified experts in the field. We help organizations achieve vendor independence, scalability and superior performance.

Symas Corporation was founded in 1999. Two of the three founders, Matthew Hardin and Marty Heyman, remain in executive positions. Howard Chu, CTO and Chief Architect of the OpenLDAP Project, joined within weeks and is considered a founder as well. Symas has invested in OpenLDAP development since the beginning. Our technical support and professional services are focused on expanding adoption of OpenLDAP and establishing it as the industry standard LDAP implementation. Symas currently has a staff of nineteen. Thirteen, including “management” are technical contributors. Four are dedicated to support. Another four are support resources. Five are actively involved in OpenLDAP-related development. Symas is an entirely “virtual” company. We have had a “work from home” policy from the founding. We currently have five people outside the US (Ireland, UK, and Bulgaria). The remainder are spread across all four time-zones of the US.

Here are just a few of the organizations that trust Symas products and its support organization with their mission-critical OpenLDAP deployments:

• European Commission
• Givaudan
• PayPal
• Hitachi
• Klarna Bank AB
• Université de Lausanne
• Viasat
• Turk Telecom
• AirBnB
• Merck KGaA
• Cisco Systems
• HP Enterprise
• HP Inc
• PayPal
• Hyperwallet
• SAP Ariba
• Stratus Technologies