An Identity Management (IM) solution aims at streamlining and strengthening the process of user provisioning in the IT environment of a corporation. A successful IM solution must exhibit the following functional characteristics: - It must provide full coverage of the user provisioning cycle.
- It must provide easy tracking of users, employees and partners
- It must reduce the costs of managing a large number of employees
- It must provide protection of critical data from unauthorized users through proper user profiling
- It must provide unified administration of the various user authentication subsystems that may exist in the IT environment
- It must provide unified security policy enforcement according to user profiles
- It must improve user service level
- It must provide centralized management of all users.
- It must increase employee productivity
Expertnet offers to its customers such a solution which is based on the CA Identity Manager product. The CA Identity Manager has won numerous awards and has been used in demanding installations worldwide including Greece. Its key capabilities are the following: - Delegated user administration.
- User self service
- Integrated work flow
- Password management
- Structured management model
- Integrated compliance support
- Comprehensive support of a wide range of target systems
- Open interfaces for achieving third-party interoperability
- Connector XPRESS for creating connections to custom applications.
The CA Identity Manager can also be integrated with the rest of the solutions provided by the CA (such as CA SSO, CA Access Control) so as to provide an end to end solution for managing identities and their access to the IT systems of a corporation. An efficient Identity Management solution can only be achieved if the following three success factors are satisfied: - All customer requirements and operation characteristics are understood, documented and incorporated in the solution design.
- A resilient and flexible design that reflects the customer's environment is produced.
- A robust and proven Identity Management technical infrastructure is used.
The IM solution offered by Expertnet satisfies these criteria and thus produces real value for its customers that can be constantly verified.
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