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Using Tivoli Federated Identity Manager to Get What You Want

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  1. You want to enhance your company’s business-to-business and business-to-consumer collaborations with centralized user access management through application integration and secure authentication.
  2. You want to improve the experience of users at your company and lower costs through business-to-consumer user self-care and federated access control to on and off premises applications.
  3. You want to enable single sign-on (SSO) for external users to internal applications and for internal users to cloud-based applications.
  4. You want to provide web fraud detection and prevention capabilities through risk-based access control.

You want a lot!!!!!    Lucky for you there is …………

Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM)

IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is an access-management solution that provides web and federated SSO to end users across multiple applications.  TFIM allows collaboration across an organization’s business ecosystem and plays a key role in businesses extending their application access to business partners, customers and consumers. TFIM provides the ability for internal users to access externally hosted applications, including cloud-based applications and business partner applications. Read more

Federation is no longer an option

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In the past six months we’ve had more conversations with prospects and clients about Federation than in the prior six years.The technology is being widely adopted and is no longer a barrier. What is becoming a barrier is managing the multitude of user ids and passwords required to perform someone’s daily job duties. Or more commonly all these ids or multiple logins may be the reason a customer chooses a competitor to transact business with. Strategic business direction almost mandates that a move to a seemless customer logon experience is no longer an option. It will start costing companies significant business (if it hasn’t already).

It’s becoming clear, based on our conversations with clients, that a federated identity management model is moving up the priority list for IT management. And it’s being driven from the business side. If you’re in IT security or infrastructure, are you educated and ready to help move your company forward? Read more