Roles Based Provisioning

User Provisioning

To stay competitive, your company needs to stay agile. However, maintaining agility is difficult when IT processes take too much time and staff involvement. Not only does that challenge affect your IT department, but it also affects end users, who may have trouble accessing the applications they need to do their jobs. Time that could be spent on value-added projects is instead spent on manual processes, helpdesk calls and user provisioning. User productivity slows because of the time it takes to access applications. All of these challenges can make it difficult for your business to stay agile and competitive. Novell has a solution that can help you rise above these challenges and move forward with the growth of your company.

Role Based Provisioning from Novell delivers the right mix of roles, rules and policies while working seamlessly with your existing IT infrastructure.

When your users can't perform at their best, overall costs to your enterprise increase dramatically. Role Based Provisioning can help: new employees can be granted access to all the resources they need on their first day on the job, and all necessary approval workflows are automated.

Workflow-based provisioning allows you to easily manage user access. Users can request access to IT resources via automated workflow, freeing IT staff to focus on value-added projects rather than on user access rights.

Role Based Provisioning

With Role Based Provisioning from Novell, you can reduce bottlenecks and the amount of manual intervention your systems require. Our solution enables you to:

• Reduce the time spent on provisioning
• Increase IT and end user productivity
• Increase ROI
• Lower TCO

Users can maintain their own passwords and profile information, which reduces helpdesk calls and the costs associated with them. In addition, our solution offers a role-based application launcher for the specific applications your users need to do their jobs, so they have access to the right resources, no matter where they're working.

Workflow-based provisioning allows you to easily manage user access. Users can request access to IT resources via automated workflow, freeing IT staff to focus on value-added projects rather than on user access rights.

It synchronizes identity data throughout the enterprise, using automated provisioning, role-based management and a simplified interface. Our solution makes it easy for departments and line-of-business owners to manage their own users' access needs instead of having to rely on a network administrator. When roles change, access rights are updated automatically. And when an employee leaves, access is revoked in real time. With these capabilities, you can focus less on granting users access and more on making them productive.

High ROI with Novell Solutions

With our solution, you get high ROI and low TCO through tight provisioning and integration of roles, policies and rules. Our state-of-the-art, online, event-driven identity provisioning with request/approval capabilities quickly provisions users with the required rights to instantly access services and applications.

Make New Hires Productive

Every time you hire new employees, people throughout your business—from HR directors to IT managers—are kept busy just trying to ensure the new employees have what they need to do their jobs. And as your organization becomes more complex, managing your users' access rights requires increasing amounts of time and effort. In today's regulated environment, with so many standards to meet, it simply takes too long to give your users the proper access. This results in lost productivity at every step of the provisioning process and impedes employees from the end user to the IT staff. And if you're unsure where your resources are or who owns them, you can lose even more time. When you're not sure what rights to authorize, you can create security problems, which lead to compliance violations.

Our Role Based Provisioning solution enables you to provision new employees up to 95 percent faster.

Automate Provisioning

The answer to these challenges is Role Based Provisioning from Novell. It allows you to unite identity and security management, automate provisioning and prove compliance. It delivers the scalability and interoperability you need to quickly and consistently grant access and easily collect data to prove compliance. We enable you to cut costs while improving security and productivity.

Simply put, you can automate processes, simplify complexity, and save time with the Role Based Provisioning solution from Novell.

Our solution automates the tedious manual processes associated with user access rights, which helps your line-of-business managers and IT staff stay productive. It can also help you minimize risk by eliminating human error and ensuring that users have access to the resources they need to do their jobs—and nothing else. When you consolidate your identity and access management functions under one console and one vendor, you simplify your enterprise, lower management costs and mitigate risk.

Preconfigured for Business Applications

Our solution is preconfigured with a wide list of enterprise business applications, allowing you to use it with your existing IT resources. Leverage your IT investments and increase ROI when you use Role Based Provisioning from Novell.

Know Your Employee's Needs

When managers and employees send you requests for access, you need to know what they should have access to and what they shouldn't. Most of the time, you have to settle for taking their word for it because your company doesn't have an enterprisewide process to show you which rights and privileges are appropriate to which employees. You end up giving people too many rights because you don't have the time or data to do otherwise. And on top of that, you are likely using too many resources to manage access—resources that could be used to fund value-added projects.

Use Role Based Provisioning to reduce the time and resources you spend on manual interventions during the provisioning process.

To make the most of your already-strained IT budget, you need to ensure that you are not granting excessive rights and that you can prove compliance with any standard your company follows.

Eliminate Manual Administration

What if you could solve all of these problems while increasing your ROI, decreasing your TCO and improving your productivity? Sound too good to be true? It's not, and Novell can show you how to do it.

With Role Based Provisioning, you can eliminate the expensive and time-consuming process of manually administering users' access needs. You can increase efficiency by automating provisioning and workflow processes, enabling delegated administration and providing self-service capabilities. A number of process inefficiencies—such as time-consuming user provisioning, manual data gathering and reporting for compliance, and frequent calls to the helpdesk—lead to higher operational costs. Our solution automates inefficient manual processes and eliminates costly repetitive tasks.

In addition, Role Based Provisioning completes these processes from a central point, increasing IT efficiency and allowing the company to grow its user base and develop, launch and operate new business applications without adding any additional staff.

Cost Effective Provisioning

Novell has created the most cost effective way to provision users while maintaining system-wide efficiency and security. Our solution also delivers the governance, risk and compliance features your enterprise needs to increase and maintain a strong ROI.

Proven Compliance

With the expansion of global markets and an increase in electronic data, governments and industries worldwide are requiring that your company meet their regulations or incur stiff fees and penalties. In addition, your organization has internal policies that each individual department must meet. Not complying with these regulations can have grave consequences for a business and can hurt its brand reputation. These consequences can include fines, losing the right to accept credit card payments and even legal action. And yet, verifying that processes are compliant requires excessive manual evaluation, which ties up valuable human resources and increases the risk of failed audits due to human error.

Role Based Provisioning from Novell enables you to comply with industry regulations, such as SOX, HIPAA, FISMA, PCI-DSS and many others.

With the many internal policies and external regulations to comply with, you need a simple, effective way to manage compliance so you can stop focusing on audits and start focusing on running your business. And that's where we can help. Our Role Based Provisioning solution can improve compliance and security by replacing manual processes with continuous auditing and reporting of IT controls.

It's flexibility and ease of use allows you to respond swiftly to known threats, identify and resolve new risks as they emerge, and demonstrate and monitor compliance with internal policies, government regulations and industry standards. You need an enterprisewide security picture so you can manage your security environment more cost effectively. Our solution can help you do this while keeping costs low. You can automate the processes and procedures your organization must have in place to ensure complete security. And we do it all based on your users' individual identities. Keep your enterprise's assets secure, while simplifying compliance and proving it to the auditors.

Analyze Data with Reports

Our solution automatically logs and tracks all user access for auditing purposes, simplifying the entire compliance process. This makes it much easier to track down breaches in security should they ever occur, and provides solid confirmation that only authorized users have access to sensitive information and systems. Every policy you set can be automatically enforced.

With our solution, you can create detailed reports that correlate data from across the enterprise. You can analyze the data in real time to help you identify and respond to security incidents and policy compliance violations. And you can eliminate all the manual logging and provisioning that requires so much time, money and staff hours. The benefits of this solution—reduced risk and increased productivity—both equal lower costs.

Automated Auditing Process

No matter what auditing tasks your organization faces, our solution will help you automate manual processes. This automation allows you to decrease the number of staff required to keep your business safe, increase the reliability of your security processes and free everyone in your organization to work on revenue-building projects—all of which help you lower costs from the desktop to the data center.