Novell Identity Manager
Reduce IT costs and keep users productive from their first day to their last, with Novell Identity Manager. Workflow and provisioning allow users to request access to reports or applications as well as request resources. They can also reset forgotten passwords without calling the help desk via password self-service.
Features & Benefits
- Quick and easy user provisioning
- Make sure new employees have access to everything they need to get right down to work. Using Identity Manager, you can provision new employees 95 percent faster, and eliminate those tedious, labor-intensive manual procedures that usually accompany the hiring process. And at the other end of the spectrum, Identity Manager lets you revoke access immediately upon their departure from your enterprise. Best of all, everything is verifiable, so you can both enforce and prove compliance with all the security policies in place at your company. More +
- Adjustable access tuned to changing needs
- Give them exactly what they need, when they need it. Throughout their career within your organization, an employee may play many roles. Novell Identity Manager lets you securely and automatically manage the access needs of all your users, even when they change roles and take on new responsibilities.
More + - Dynamic, demonstrable compliance
- When you need to prove, track, automate, and verify your security policies, Identity Manager is your best friend. You won't need to worry about Sarbanes-Oxley or other information disclosure legislation like it, because Novell Identity Manager logs and tracks all user access for auditing purposes. 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.
More + - Password changes made easy
- If your users have to call the help desk to change their passwords, you're going to love this. Nearly 30% of help desk calls are password related. Analysts estimate that each time someone calls the help desk, it costs anywhere from $25 to $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. More +
- Easy to design, debug and deploy
- Create and document your rules and policies with ease—without code knowledge. Designer for Identity Manager is like a little sandbox in which you can play around with many different options as you create the identity policies and rules that will govern your network. With little code knowledge required, Designer uses graphics and drag & drop to make designing, debugging, and deploying your identity management solutions an intuitive (and even fun) process. Get a full view of Identity Manager in your enterprise, drill down to any level of detail, and get instant documentation of the policies and rules defined in Identity Manager whenever you need it. More +
- Out of the box connections to your business apps
- Keep the apps you already have—we'll just make them more secure. With the largest driver set in the universe, you can be sure that Identity Manager has drivers for all the business applications you currently have in place. No need to rip and replace anything.
More + - Unify all your digital identities
- It's simple: One person, one identity. Identity Manager unifies digital identities across all business systems in the enterprise so that when an identity is created or changed in the authoritative system, the new information is automatically propagated to all appropriate systems. This helps you stay in compliance with your company policies, preventing someone from being both a purchaser and an orderer, for example. More +
Success & Awards
News & Events
- 01 Novell positioned in leaders quadrant for User Provisioning
- 02 Identity Manager v3.5 wins Best Buy from SC Magazine
- 03 Listen to Identity Manager engineers discuss the Designer program
- 04 The Last Word on Passwords Seminar Series
- 05 Novell Enables Rapid Adoption of Identity Management by Open Sourcing Key Technologies
Ability to comply with regulatory requirements

Reduced user management time by 95 percent