This whitepaper discusses the User Provisioning challenges and is a tool for companies evaluating such a solution to have a clearer, more structured evaluation process. 

The document focuses on how to evaluate and analyze each of the components. The enclosed short version includes a thorough evaluation of connectors, GUI, and password management, while also highlighting the others topics covered by the full document.

In this space there are 3 leading applications: Web access control, single sign-on, and password management. All three are trying to solve the problems associated with the exponential growth in the number of password every individual manages in today’s IT environment.  This growth introduces security problems, ease of use complexities, and tremendous operational costs.

The whitepaper describes in details password management, single sign-on, the differences between them, the costs associated with deploying them, and their associated business values. The document also describes two alternative approaches to combining these  solutions.