There are good sticky things, and then there are <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2098555,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL022707EOAD">the stickies stuck onto PC monitors with passwords</A> jotted down.

The 17,000 employees at the specialty chemicals company Rohm and Haas--a company whose IT department is a firm believer in off-the-shelf software--until recently were laboring under the task of maintaining between 12 and 15 separate user names and passwords to access systems needed to do their jobs. The help desk, for its part, were handling 14,000 password-related calls per year.

To fix the problem, Rohm and Haas turned to IBM's Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-on.