The access management component of the framework provides the fundamental access control functionality, which addresses authentication and authorization of users’ access to information or resources. While the enterprise role architecture and the user provisioning solutions are used to facilitate the policy definition element of the solution, the access management component enforces applicable business rules from a centralized management perspective.

The benefits of this component are:

• Efficient enterprise management of access control
• Consistent access control policy application and enforcement
• Increased consistency in assignment of access rights
• Improved ability to implement strong authentication on an enterprise scale
• Faster application development cycle

Our primary product experience and/or vendor alliances in this area include:

• Computer Associates
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM/Tivoli
• Novell
• Oracle
• Sun Microsystems