:: Identity Management ::

Identity Management (IdM) is the process of managing the lifecycle of user identities. Every organization deals with entities (principals) such as employees, consultants, clients, business partners, temporary workers, etc. These principals are provided identities that enable them to access company resources. The foundation of any IdM architecture starts with agreeing on a unique user identity across the enterprise and also coming up with the enterprise user repository that becomes golden source of user information.

For example, employees have user ids to login to the LAN and access corporate email, HR benefits, business applications, etc. Identity Management (IdM) refers to the business processes that creates this id, makes changes to the id, tracks the usage of this id and finally deletes the id upon the employee's departure from the organization. Such processes are typically referred to on-boarding, off-boarding and maintenance of identities. This extends beyond applications and data and can include other resources such as building access cards, PCs, phones, credit cards, office space. Provisioning could be centrally managed or decentralized as in a federated IDM model.

InfoRender has been guiding the enterprise Identity Management initiatives of several large corporations. We have provided solutions ranging from product deployments to strategy and architecture. In partnership with vendors and client teams, InfoRender has conducted proof-of-concepts, defined strategies, customized and implemented provisioning products in corporate environments. InfoRender practitioners have experience with most leading products including following:

Our services in this arena include:

Requirements gathering - working with the business and technology groups to document and analyze provisioning requirements
Strategy definition - that ties-in with the corporate IdM strategy
Design
Business process design - defining key business processes such as on-boarding, off-boarding, and maintenance
Unique User Identity and User Repository (Directory) strategy
Product evaluation and selection - quick evaluation to select candidates for POC
Proof-of-concept - to test selected products against criteria
Product selection - based on POC results and customer strategy
Development
Adapters - to connect to other products in the enterprise e.g. PeopleSoft, Siebel
Custom development - customization of management tools, reports, etc. to extend the product functionality
Implementation
Planning deployment architectures for robust, fault tolerant, high performance systems
Installation, configuration, testing of off-the-shelf and custom products in the enterprise environment