Novell Identity Manager

Novell Identity Manager 4 Advanced Edition

Novell Identity Manager 4 Advanced Edition helps customers to create the intellectual, ready to use of cloud computing and protected enterprise — from a data processing center to a cloud

The Novell Identity Manager 4 software product entering into the Novell WorkloadIQ family represents the solution which guarantees application of the approved rules of management of accounts, security and normative and legal compliance for all information and technology ecosystem of the enterprise. As a result clients and partners can simplify service of users and more effectively protect corporate data at simultaneous reduction in cost and complexity of the systems.

Novell Identity Manager 4 Advanced Edition is a crucial part of wider family of software products of Novell for providing access and security which form a reliable basis for management of identification data in a physical, virtual and cloud environment. Announced at the beginning of this year, Identity Manager 4 relies on responses of more than 6000 clients and completely changes approach to user account control and access of the corporate level. Exceeding competitors, it integrates in itself(himself) the developed management tools roles, the advanced workflows and intelligent tools of the reporting, meeting the requirements for access control and normative legal compliance of the most advanced enterprises and suppliers of managed services.

Novell Identity Manager 4 takes the central place in the concept of Novell WorkloadIQ. A crucial element of this concept is providing a broad spectrum ready to use in a cloud of solutions for management of electronic persons and the safety meeting the requirements of the modern enterprises for security in a physical, virtual and cloud environment. With growth of popularity of cloud solutions security issues, such as providing the appropriate rights of access and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, purchase the increasing value. Novell Identity Manager 4 helps customers to provide uninterrupted providing access rights in cloud applicaions.

Novell Identity Manager 4 Standard Edition

In April Novell announced product output of Novell Identity Manager of 4 Standard Editions which will help customers to protect the enterprise, having at the same time limited expenses and observing regulatory requirements. Novell Identity Manager 4 Standard Editions is a crucial part of wide family of the Novell WorkloadIQ software products which form a basis for management of identification data, approved and ready to cloud computing, in a physical, virtual and cloud environment.

Novell Identity Manager 4 Standard Editions is the second product of the Identity Manager 4 family intended for solving of tasks on management of the identification information to an information system of the customer. Existence of simple means of system integration and automation remains the main selection term of solutions for IT departments. Novell Identity Manager 4 Standard Editions combines the management system for accounts of users automated, based on rules with modern means of accounting, opportunities of expansion and close integration with systems Microsoft SharePoint and SAP ERP. This integration helps to ensure reliable functioning in a cloud by connection to such services, Salesforce.com as well as GoogleApps. Novell Identity Manager 4 Standard Editions allows the organizations to remain open and flexible in a physical, virtual and cloud environment.

According to Rencana, the independent consulting group specializing in IT, simplicity of integration is the most important factor influencing the total ownership cost (TCO) of management systems for identification and access (Identity and Access Management - IAM). In a recent research TCO Rencana came to conclusion that at deployment of the ready connectors Novell system integrators save up to 75% of time in comparison with the competing products. Besides, obtaining necessary audit reports when using the products IAM from Novell requires on average 81% less time.

To traffic police of the State of California automation using Novell Identity Manager allowed to exclude practically the labor-intensive manual processes connected with password management and to reduce the number of passwords which users should remember by 75%. "Every time when adding the new user it automatically gets access to the different applications necessary for it for work, on the basis of the predeterminated groups, ― Bruce McLeod, the system architect of network services of Traffic police of the State of California explains. ― It is huge saving of time of our IT personnel and strengthening of security thanks to a guarantee that the necessary people will get access to the necessary applications".