Companies manage multiple directories, such as HR, telephone lists, intranet database, and user accounts. These multiples systems can bring efficiency and security issues.

These directories often operate in a stand-alone mode and are managed individually. This can be time-consuming, puts an additional and unnecessary strain on resources and creates consistency issues (redundant or outdated data).

As companies are getting increasingly mobile and because of constant organizational changes, data must be updated more frequently, which brings additional costs and impacts the quality of service. The on boarding of a new employee (records in the HR database, allocation of a dedicated line, creation of a user account, configuration of access rights) can be a lengthy process that can take days or even weeks and delay the employee's ramping-up.

On the other hand, companies may be overexposed to major risks if accounts and rights are not canceled when employees leave the company.

Directory Management at enterprise level is therefore critical. Directory Management helps create, update and delete identities and rights in a central repository that synchronizes with other databases.

Benefits of identity management

• Identity data is consistent and relevant, whatever the organizational changes (recruiting, relocation, etc.)

• With provisioning solutions, companies benefit from centralized and automated allocation (or deletion) of access rights to enterprise resources. Data are entered once and then distributed to all target systems.

• Identity management is key to boosting the overall company efficiency as all processes are automated within the framework of a workflow.

• Enterprise security strategy benefits from single identification of people and of their access rights.

• Central directory hosts all user (identity, title, contacts) and organizational (subsidiaries, divisions, sites, etc.) data and speeds up the setup of yellow/white pages or organizational charts and strengthens inter and intra company communications.

What AXIANS offers

AXIANS deploys and supports LDAP directories, so also identity and rights management solutions. AXIANS is a BMC Software partner.

Creating value with Axians

• A directory can use several different sources: databases, PBX directory, XML sources or LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), the international standard for directories. We have comprehensive management and integration expertise on these technologies.

• AXIANS leverages its skills in the areas of telephony, network and application engineering to make your system consistent.