Identity Manager delivers superior integrated
user provisioning, password management and identity synchronization services.
“The main challenges that will stop schools from utilizing the Student Advantage program are related to identity management,
user provisioning, licensing, and password synchronization.
We are committed to innovation, which is why our solutions for
user provisioning, self-service group management, IT compliance management, automatic group management, enterprise password management and enterprise risk management continue to meet and exceed the selection criteria."
administrators can automate
user provisioning, the most crucial task in IAM, as
Gartner divides the IdM vendor space into three broad categories: single sign on,
user provisioning, and Web access management, and publishes Magic Quadrants on each.
Compliance remains an important driver across many segments, particularly
user provisioning, security information and event management (SIEM) and mobile data protection.
The enterprise security software market formed by segments such as endpoint protection platform, email security boundary and
user provisioning is predicted to account for US$10.9 billion, reaching 9% growth in 2009.
As a result of the integration users will be able to take advantage of synchronised presence; the ability to exchange instant messages between the two systems through a common enterprise-wide user directory; and simplified administration for
user provisioning between both systems.
In addition, SAP and Novell announced a collaboration within the SAP Enterprise Services Community program, hosted by SAP, to strengthen customers' governance, risk and compliance practices by supporting business access risk policies to
user provisioning activities.
Having both multi-level workflow and strong application integration capabilities are essential components of a
user provisioning product," said Roberta Witty, research director at Gartner, Inc.
In the new version it will also have what partners characterized as rudimentary
user provisioning features.