Comparing Identity Manager to Microsoft MIIS
Novell Cool Solutions: Tip
By Johan Akerstrom
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Posted: 18 Jul 2007 |
Problem
A Forum reader recently asked:
"I need to know be able to effectively compare Novell IDM to Microsoft MIIS. My company wants to move to MIIS, and I want to prevent that."
And here's the response from Johan Akerstrom ...
Solution
Here are few quick notes for you ...
- IDM has support for more drivers.
- IDM has built in support for manual workflows (UserApp).
- IDM has built in support for Flexible strong passwords.
- IDM has GINA/Web-based Password Reset Management.
- IDM uses a graphical designer for building business rules but can call external Java/ECMAScript code if necessary (it won't need to often).
- IDM has support for Role based entitlements.
- IDM has auditing built in.
- IDM is event-based.
- MIIS rules needs to be coded in C# or VB.NET, except for very basic mappings. More or less, everything needs to be coded in MIIS.
- MIIS has no gina password reset management.
- MIIS is state-based.
- MIIS Management Agents (equivalent of IDM Connectors) need to be scheduled for export, import and synchronization runs.
- MIIS has no concept of roles or entitlements.
- MIIS has no built-in auditing.
- MIIS code can be debugged easily with Visual Studio.
- MIIS is cheaper (there just might be a reason for that, though).
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