Thursday, February 16, 2012

A Smart Choice in Identity Management: CA IDM

Lately there has been a large influx of newly minted Identity Management products, and deciphering the overall grade of a product is undoubtedly a heavy undertaking. Simply put, it’s hard to weed the good from the bad. After wading through the different IDM solutions out there, one that stood out was CA. CA’s Identity Management Suite makes things faster, easier, and less error prone than having your IT department do it by hand. In fact, Gartner has consistently positioned CA in the exclusive “Leaders” quadrant for a variety of ranking. With CA you’re working with a trusted name in the industry.

CA Identity Management provides a lot more than just the common Identity Management solution. With this, user provisioning and removal, as well as any approval processes the user may need throughout his life-cycle, is automated. This allows for less human error by the IT department, preventing accidental access to services the user simply should not have. Workflows can schedule these events, and are completely customizable, allowing you to customize organization approvals and alerts.  CA Identity management also supports customization on connectors without having to completely write, manage, and support custom code created by a technical consultant.

The CA Identity Management Suite also provides a core for the control of all users, roles, and policies you need for multiple identity services. You can collect and synchronize all users’ attributes, roles, and identity tasks to one hub, allowing for ease of access across your entire company. After aggregating all user data, users can login and update their personal information (i.e. street address, last name, postal address, password reset) on their own, freeing up your IT department for allocation on other pressing matters. They can also request access to certain privileges via the process of workflows, which can be approved by senior members of your team.

CA Identity Management also supports cloud applications in addition to the on-premises apps other identity management suites proudly boast. Connecting to cloud applications via CA Identity Management allows for your business to manage everything from a single point of access. CA Identity management has out-of-the-box connectors to interface with applications such as SAP, Active Directory, and Salesforce.com.

After reviewing the facts, CA Identity Management appears to be a sublime IDM solution. With cloud application support, automated user management, and user self-servicing, CA Identity Manager provides your company with everything you need to create a more optimized, efficient, and resource saving solution for all your businesses compliance and identity management needs.

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