Reduce IT Costs
You'd be surprised how much money you can save by tightening up and automating your identity management. But the task can feel overwhelming. Given the complexity of today's business and IT environment, how do you cost-effectively secure and protect business assets without compromising new business opportunities or reducing operational effectiveness?
IT complexity underscores the need to integrate, secure and manage diverse and often disconnected IT infrastructure built over the course of several acquisitions and many years of investment. Novell identity solutions help integrate, secure and manage information assets to reduce complexity. These solutions provide IT integration by unifying identity information and policies across all the different systems in an organization to reduce complexity. Centrally managed policies enable the consistent application of security across diverse environments. Business policies also define and automate approval processes and enable business managers to administer their own users' access needs. This reduces the IT burden of administering users when roles change, resulting in dramatic IT cost reduction and protection of systems from former employees.
Here are some of the ways Novell Identity Management solutions can dramatically cut costs.
Password Management from Identity Manager
Password management solutions typically show a return on investment (ROI) in less than one year. According to analysts, password management products provide a high, easily demonstrated ROI, and help organizations meet such business goals as improved user convenience, enhanced system security and reduced IT or helpdesk overhead. Novell Identity Manager lets you provide password self-service to your end users, and starts saving you money the minute you turn it on.
Nearly 30 percent of helpdesk calls are password related. Analysts estimate that each time someone calls the help desk, it costs anywhere from US $25 to US $50. Why not empower your users through password self-service? It keeps them from getting derailed from their work, reduces distractions, and makes everyone more efficient. Let them change their passwords and manage their identity in accordance with your business policy, and take your help desk out of that loop. Learn More +
Single Sign-on from Access Manager
Make it easy to login and use Web-based applications. Novell Access Manager enables single sign-on, which means employees and partners only have to remember one login for authorized access to all corporate Web-based applications. This will free your help desk from web-access password calls, make your users more productive, and support your organization's security requirements. Learn More +
Drive Down Storage Costs with Novell Storage Manager
If you have a large, dynamic user population, Novell Storage Manager can help you generate a substantial return on your investment (ROI). Novell Storage Manager will save you significant amounts of time and money almost immediately, automating thousands of hours of manual work, and performing storage-management tasks in a consistent and auditable manner.
For example, a government agency with 30,000 employees was spending approximately US$48,000 each year to manually provision and manage employee storage. They were considering a customized, home-grown solution but were worried that it would be difficult and costly to deploy and integrate. That's when the agency heard about Novell Storage Manager. It slid right into their infrastructure, working seamlessly with their existing servers. Full deployment took about six weeks, and the agency started seeing a return on its investment within three months. Automation and the easy-to-use management tools nearly eliminated storage-related expenses. Annual storage management costs dropped to US$6,000, saving the agency US$42,000 per year. Learn More +
