UMSolution – An Identity Management Tool

Client Business Area: IT Consultant

Case Details

The UMSolution (www.umsolution.net) is a product. The concept of this product is introduced by ITMC, Denmark to manage the IT identity for internal as well as external users, like Consultants, Temporary employees, Vendors, Suppliers, Customers, etc.

UMSolution (UMS) is a Role Based Identity Management tool through which you can control user’s corporate IT identity according to Roles (Job Function) , IT Security rules, and compliance.

Objectives

UMS is a time, resource, and financially effective system that enable you to add, change and terminate users across all infrastructure, hardware and applications.

The objectives of implementing UMS are:

  • Business Control : UMS enables the company to fully administer user access rights from an easy-to-use and easy-to-understand interface based on users’ job functions (roles).
  • Security : UMS introduces a secure structure that enables the organization to maintain a strict policy of providing only need-to-know based access and the ability to document it.
  • Compliance : UMS enables the business to meet regulatory demands of CoBit, SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley), Euro-SOX and other related frameworks. UMS will secure World-Class compliance in relation to user and access management.
  • Free Up Resources: UMS will transfer the burden of user management from highly-skilled IT professionals to administrative personnel – supported by management approval workflows.

Scope

  • Business Scope: To gain control of the administration of internal and external users and their access rights within the organization.
  • Technical Scope: UMS lets the management take control of all accesses to the entire IT infrastructure; across platforms, systems, applications and databases.
  • Geographical Scope: UMS will control all business units across all geographical locations. The only requirement is network connectivity.
  • Product Relevance: UMS will help the business solve the following three problems within the organization:
  • User management is hard to operate as it requires a general system overview. This knowledge is unavailable for the business and IT technical skills are a necessity.
  • Highly skilled technical personnel are needed to carry out user management. It is expensive and these resources can be used for more appropriate tasks.
  • The business need to document that they meet the compliance demands set from internal and external parties.

UMS is based on Microsoft SharePoint (MOSS 2007) and enable non-technical personnel to administer user’s access to company information systems and applikations.

UMS is supported by approval workflows and Separation of Duties functionality (SoD) which allows e.g. financial and biotech industry to use this on regulated areas. Furthermore it gives a full audit track of all actions taken.

The SoD and audit track function will enable your business to meet the compliance demands of e.g. SOX, FDA, BASEL II and other frameworks.

Technology

  • Microsoft ® Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • ASP.NET Framework 2.0 /3.5
  • MS SQL Server 2005
  • AJAX
  • Windows Server2003 (Deployment Platform)
  • Window service
  • Telerik
  • Web services
  • Exchange Server
  • LDAP
  • Oracle

Achievement

Secure Independence

UMSolution is built to support plug-in modules. UMSolution can be customized to integrate and control access to any given system. This is simply done by:

  • Register the plug in the XML file 
  • Easy to deploy facility which is provided by web part.(Creation Deployment)
  • Upgrade the DLL file 
  • Restart the service
Working like this will secure your independence.

Control and Integration with IT Infrastructure

UMSolution supports Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Active directory, Ole db compliant clients and many more systems managed centrally. As UMSolution is SharePoint application based, it can utilize Active Directory based authentication and authorization. It can also be customized to use the sign on facility for any of your intranet solutions.

Few More ….

  • Easy to deploy facility which is provided by web part. (Creation Deployment)
  • User Management System for Administrator
  • Successfully integrate Custom Workflows
  • Successfully integrate Telerik Control
  • Complete Audit trail.
  • Implement Role based user Authentication and administration
  • Compliance and documentation
  • Communication with Real-time systems like LDAP, Oracle , Exchange server 2007, as well as solutions for communicating with off-line systems

Advantages

  • With UMS you can control user’s corporate identity according to Role Based Access Control
  • UMSolution supports Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Active directory, Ole db and LDAP compliant systems. As UMSolution is SharePoint based, it can also be customized to use the sign on facility you are currently using for your intranet solution.
  • This is good news for both management and IT team members. Management can now utilize their costly technical professionals to productive task instead of rights and identity management which should be a routine part of general administration.

Salient Features

  • Role based IT Identity Management Solution, cross all platforms, systems and applications.
  • User Approval Process via Workflow.
  • Automation and Simplification of User Management process like Add, Edit, Disable and Terminate user.
  • User Profile/Job-Functions Management.
  • User Audit Trail.
  • User Mailbox creation.
  • User home drive creation.
  • Shared folder Management.
  • Full documentation of IT and user compliance.
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