User provisioning products help organizations to create, manage and deactivate login IDs and other resources for users. They are intended to streamline administration of user access to systems as users are hired, move through an organization, and leave.
This document helps organizations to define criteria which can be used to select an appropriate user provisioning product.
The selection process begins with the business case for a user provisioning system. This business case is used to develop functional and technical requirements, which in turn drive the product and vendor selection process.
29. Selecting a User Provisioning Product
7 Conclusions
As described in this document, a user provisioning system is conceptually simple, but can be difficult to
deploy and to manage.
A careful examination of products and the vendors that make them is essential to getting:
• Rapid deployment.
• Reliable and scalable operation.
• Good user adoption.
By meeting these objectives, a user provisioning system will reduce administration cost, improve user ser-
vice and enhance security.
The issues raised here are difficult to validate on paper. Hitachi ID encourages prospective customers to
use the points raised in this document to construct rigorous laboratory testing conditions, and to evaluate
prospective products empirically, with vendor assistance.
Remember: try before you buy!
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Date: June 12, 2004