Identity management

What can an IDM strategy do for your business?

How much is gained from adopting an IDM strategy depends on how deeply it's incorporate into the IT strategy and how mature the data policy framework is.

Deeply-integrated IDM solutions have the capacity to be transformational, re-framing identity data into a trustworthy organisational asset and springboarding initiatives not practical under a manual administration model.

Benefits of a good strategy include:

  • End users see updates actioned much faster across integrated systems;
  • Trust is built through data being identical across integrated systems;
  • New integrations are often easier since they only need to integrate with the IDM (particularly true where multiple systems would otherwise have to be integrated);
  • Removal of duplicate manual administration;
  • Good security practices such as "role-based", "just enough" and "just in time" access;
  • Facilitates self-service, taking pressure of centralised staff.

Solutions

Microsoft offers three products advertised under the "identity" umbrella, however, only Microsoft Identity Manager is capable of delivering on a full identity management strategy. Entra Connect and Cloud Sync are basic account synchronisation tools with mid-level attribute transformation capabilities.

Microsoft Azure customers operating a hybrid environment would typically run either Microsoft Entra Connect or Cloud Sync in addition to Microsoft Identity Manager.

We offer a product-agnostic strategic consulting service as well as Microsoft-specific technical implementation services for the above products.