One of the questions that I regularly answer for potential customers is—what does Identity Automation do? The best answer to that question is we help organizations of all types and sizes to solve their real world, every day business problems.
Following are descriptions of the types of solutions that Identity Automation regularly architects and implements for its customers.
- Automate the process of creating and deleting user
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During an identity management project, we frequently have discussions with our customers about provisioning via workflow. Some customers expect that they will have to deploy workflow to perform any type of provisioning while others hope to fully automate the entire process.
The decision on whether or not to implement workflow can be based on technology requirements or based on political or other environment requirements. Some
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Back in March I gave Five Reason Why You Need An IDM Solution. We regularly talk with customers that would like to implement some sort of Identity Management (IDM) or Data Integration (DI) solution but are challenged with implementation costs, licensing costs, skills capability for infrastructure management and skills capability to manage and maintain the “drivers” that facilitate the movement of data between systems.
As
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Businesses around the world are increasing performance, reliability and agility by deploying Linux into their datacenters. These deployments carry a variety of workloads such as Web and network services as well as mission-critical applications and databases.
One of the primary drivers for an organization in considering a Linux solution is its ability to run on less hardware and the lower software ownership / usage costs that
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In every identity project the topic of user account naming conventions comes up. We have seen just about every convention possible. More often than not, environments have more than one convention because over time they changed the convention but grandfathered in the existing accounts. Inevitably I’m asked, “What is the best user account naming convention for us to use?”
There is no such thing as an absolute right answer to
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