Novell Identity Manager

Quick and Easy User Provisioning

Make sure new employees have access to everything they need to get right down to work. Using Novell Identity Manager, you can provision new employees 95 percent faster, eliminating those tedious, labor-intensive manual procedures that usually accompany the hiring process. Best of all, everything is verifiable, so you can both enforce and prove compliance with all the security policies in place at your company.

Novell Identity Manager provides automated user provisioning throughout the user lifecycle—delivering first-day access to new users, and modifying or rescinding access as necessary across all systems. With Identity Manager you can control user administration costs, eliminate complex manual processes, and enforce security enterprise-wide—all while delivering the right resources so your users can do their jobs.

Novell Identity Manager automates complex provisioning processes so your users have immediate access to resources across the enterprise. With role-based provisioning you can assign resources to your users based on business roles and policies. New employees are granted access to all the resources they need on their first day on the job, and all necessary approval workflows are automated. Identity Manager also makes it easy for business managers and departments 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 role-based provisioning, systems are never vulnerable, and companies can maintain visibility into how information and resources are being used.

Workflow-based Provisioning from the Provisioning Module

Workflow-based provisioning in Novell Identity Manager is the process of managing user access to secure resources in an organization. These resources may include digital entities such as user accounts, computers, and databases.

Identity Manager can service a wide range of provisioning requests. Provisioning requests are user or system actions intended to grant or revoke access to organizational resources. They can be initiated directly by the end user through the Identity Manager user application, or indirectly in response to events occurring in the Identity Vault (Novell eDirectorytrade;).

When a provisioning request requires permission from one or more individuals in an organization, the request starts a workflow. The workflow coordinates the approvals needed to fulfill the request. Some provisioning requests require approval from a single individual; others require approval from several individuals. In some instances, a request can be fulfilled without any approvals.

Some workflows require that processing proceed in a sequential fashion, with each approval step being performed sequentially. Other workflows provide support for parallel processing. When you define a provisioning request, you specify whether you want the workflow to support sequential or parallel processing. Identity Manager provides a set of Web-based tools that the administrator can use to build provisioning capabilities into the user application. These tools give you the ability to configure provisioning requests and also manage workflows that are in process. To configure a provisioning request, the administrator creates a provisioning request definition, which binds the resource to a workflow.

The workflow features of Identity Manager 3 are provided through the add-on Provisioning Module for Identity Manager. For pricing details on the Provisioning Module, click here.

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