bi-Cube^® IPM: Identity and Provisioning Management

Today in the heterogeneous IT-infrastructures of enterprises the most demanding task is the management of data, accounts and access authorisations of employees. Thereby the ICT management is confronted with four challenges:

With an Identity and Provisioning Management System these four challenges within the complex task of the ICT management can be fulfilled.

The Institut für System-Management presents with the product bi-Cube^® IPM an identity and provisioning management (IPM) system for the centralised administration of users and their authorisations (single point of administration).

The modular bi-Cube^® architecture with a identity management enables a simple and flexible integration into the existing system environment of the customer.

The bi-Cube^® architecture consists of an intelligent middleware with interfaces of different system integrations and powerful administration tools.

Via flexible interfaces on a different integration level bi-Cube^® IPM can be fed with data from other systems (e.g. SAP-HR, Paisy) and provides other systems with authorisation and user data by means of connectors.

The advantages of this bi-Cube^® IPM systems are obviously:

Definetely increased security-level
1. simple and transparent administration of competences
2. function-related competences of the role concept
3. consideration of temporary absences of users
4. no more "dead" accounts in any subsystems
5. centralised definition of roles as well as competence profiles
6. decentralised assignment of user rights
7. because of a sophisticated role concept function related competences can be allocated

Economic effects because of reduced administration
1. reducing help desk costs
2. high flexibility
3. high integration capability
4. reducing administration costs
5. improvement of licence management

Publication bi-Cube^® IPM 7.0
A further rationalisation and automation of IT business processes were achieved by the integration of PKI and license control.