Entitlement Management: Business Value

The business value of an Identity Solution is directly proportional to the number of integrated business applications and systems.

Business applications and systems have owners
•Owners must be convinced to integrate with IAM
•Convincing stakeholders requires tangible business benefits:
–Business Executive Sponsors
–IT Executive Sponsors
–Business Owners
–IT Custodians

Implementing a successful Identity Management systems requires a "Buy-in" from all stakeholders. Only when the functional requirements are clearly defined does the IAM program deliver maximum benifit to the organization.

Corporate Identity Projects: The Stakeholders

Implementing a Corporate Identity management program affects not just the IT infrastructure and operation but also impacts the Business as usual. IAM solutions provide services to multiple business applications, and involve a broad group of stakeholders.

Understanding their concerns and perspectives is a key project success factor.

Identity and Access Management Business Drivers: Why, Who and Where

There are various Business Drivers for implementing IAM solution.

Its is critical to know what your stakeholders want for an IAM program to be successful.

In our next post we will take a look at some of our prime stakeholders.

Identity and Access Management Overview

Identity and Access Management is the set of business processes, information, and technology for managing and using digital identities.

The diagram below illustrates these various components :

What's my Identity ?

Who am I?
Depends on who's asking.
Depends on when he's asking.
Depends on why he's asking.

This gives rise to the various dimensions of Identity.
Okey so let me be more specifc. We will restrict ourselves to talking about one's Digital Identity.
There are three aspects to it:
1> Who we are , this will be the personal attributes as in our name, our fingreprints our Social Security number etc.
2> The context, this is the frame of reference our identity is being used. Put simply it means how do we relate to the situation in which out identity is being used.
3>The profile, this maps to the specific role we play in the system. So your profile in the organization you work for is "An Employee" , your profile in Google is that of "A User" or "Client", unless you work for Google, then you would be an employee.

These three concepts make up for the basis of our Digital Identity.
Hopefully this has helped clarify the fundamental question.

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