IDFocus has been delivering Identity Management-related
projects since 2001, including:
This is the first phase
of every project. With Identity Management projects, however, this phase should
be addressed as carefully as it would be with other enterprise-wide projects
such as ERP.
This phase should be
conducted after the requirements have been defined. Many companies select a
product first based on analysts' opinions and generic benchmarks, only to
discover later that their selection requires heavy investment in customization
or programming (reducing their return on investment (ROI) since the product
cannot fully automate their processes) or that their project cannot scale.
This
is the most complex pre-deployment phase, and requires the most attention,
time, and coordination. This phase, combined with the Requirements Analysis
phase, should take 25% to 40% of the entire project time. Trying to "rush
through it so we can start working" is being "penny wise and pound foolish".
This is a technical
phase and one to which most IT professionals find it easier to relate. Despite
this, Identity Management projects introduce some not-so-common complexities
which must be considered. For example, most enterprise-wide Identity Management
systems involve massive integration to other target systems, thus every change
on the target system can potentially affect your identity management system,
and any modification to the API or the security settings may bring your
Identity Management system down. Moreover, an Identity Management system is a
living system. Its functionality, scope, population managed, target system
managed, and all other relevant criteria undergo constant change for the first
one to three years. Knowing about potential modifications ahead of time can
increase efficiency and user satisfaction.
These
are technical phases requiring familiarity with the following:
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The products the organization wishes to deploy.
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How to program the business processes using these products and how to customize
the Identity Management solution to fully support the organization's specific
business processes.
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Capabilities and features of the deployed products and of the target system's
APIs, and how to integrate them. What can they support and what not?
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