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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 and associated products
Ovum, Oct 2010, Pages: 13
Introduction
Microsoft is a mainstream competitor in the identity and access management (IAM) space; it has a distinctive profile, and has significantly enhanced its offerings with Forefront Identity Manager 2010 and its associated products, which build upon Active Directory and Microsoft's thought leadership in the conceptual area of online identity.
Features and benefits
- Microsoft's view of identity management embraces services in the internet.- Many components of the portfolio are available through ubiquitous Microsoft products such as Windows, Office, .NET, AD or Office.- Microsoft supports application developers in delivering access management.
Highlights
FIM is tightly integrated with key elements of the Microsoft infrastructure such as Outlook and SharePoint, allowing administrative work in areas such as user-group definition to be leveraged. Microsoft has strong capabilities in areas such as integrating internal and external identities, and extending corporate identity infrastructure the cloud.
Your key questions answered
- Who should consider Microsoft's IAM product suite? What are its USPs?- Does Microsoft provide the enterprise level management features that you expect to find in a major vendor's IAM suite?
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