Products - Competitive Comparisons
Traditional identity management (IdM/IAM) solutions were designed for pre-Internet architectures that impose hierarchical horizontal control and management of identity across vertical business processes and relationships. This creates organizational and technology conflicts, increased complexity and continuing costs that consume significant IT budget. This makes identity integration and synchronization difficult because forcing network and server identity management from several sources into a single organizational view creates conflicts with their respective business process logic, workflows, policies and security from several perspectives which are not easily, reliably or inexpensively resolved.
The problem is traditional solutions are based on a server-centric view of the IT ecosystem which by definition closely couples users with content then uses directory services for access. Each vendor has created identity hierarchies specifically designed to create security perimeters around their systems and applications. While optimized for their needs, they’ve resulted in a fragmented patchwork of incompatible identity silos sprinkled across and outside the enterprise around each business process. Even with LDAP, AD, meta-directory or virtual-directory services it remains very costly in time, human resources and money to integrate, synchronize and maintain because they are at cross purposes. This limits business flexibility, consumes large amounts of IT budget, and impairs the effective implementation of popular new IT solutions involving SOA, virtualization, open-source, SaaS and cloud computing.
PresenceID introduces Unified Identity Presence, a new relational organizing framework and best practice that is identity-centric rather than server-centric. PresenceID also introduces unique new identity integrity and self-healing capabilities to insure that identity data from all sources is aggregated and maintained as a reliable identity reference platform. PresenceID was designed from inception to integrate and synchronize distributed identity silos across the enterprise (or between enterprises) without changing how the networked systems define, manage or authenticate identity data individually. In solving identity management for distributed enterprises PresenceID solves an organizational issue centered on who owns identity management processes. The result is PresenceID uniquely automates identity administration and improves the quality of identity data of all connected systems without the complexity and costs imposed by existing IdM/IAM products that centralize all identity control functionality.
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