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| With decades of application experience,
we have created best practices for identify
management and identity provisioning. We
offer the best of breed solutions to provisioning
identity data to your applications, combined
with professional services that simplify
and integrate the many tasks of adding,
changing, removing, or provisioning user
identities across the organization. |
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| Higher education customers face particular
challenges around identity management. As
each new semester begins, thousands of students
must be granted appropriate privileges across
a wide variety of departments and applications.
At the end of term, many of these privileges
must be removed. Managing this can be a
nightmare for registrars, administrators,
and each department. |
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| To solve the needs for users in higher
education while avoiding the pain of having
to have many different IDs and passwords,
services are accessed through a centralized
site such as a web portal. At the portal
the user must validate a user id and password.
Upon verification a custom environment is
delivered to the user based on their role
and status. Behind the covers the portal
provisions data to the application that
will be required to service the user. For
instance a learning management system will
need the list of courses the student is
enrolled in to allow the student to choose
from the course list and at the same time
only access courses they are enrolled in. |
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| While this is the user scenario that higher
education users desire, the wide variety
of identify management systems, applications,
logins, and passwords make realizing this
dream a challenge for all higher education
institutions. MB Foster understands these
challenges and provides solutions that integrate
with your existing ID Management System
or let's you use Microsoft Active Directory
Services (AD). |
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| To help improve service, lower costs,
and reduce the risk of unauthorized access,
MB Foster recommends that you start with
an assessment of your current identity and
application provisioning systems. This assessment
examines the following: |
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- What are the application services
that need to be provisioned?
- What roles need to be provisioned
for student, staff, faculty, guests,
alumni, contractor, or others in the
organization?
- What service does each application
provide in the workflow for the role?
- The current process for the id assignment.
- Who are people authorizing the id
assignment?
- The process for revoking, or suspending
the authorization(s).
- The applications that the role has
access to and level of access if applicable.
- What are all the points in daily
operations that an id will be needed
and how will it be presented?
- What is the method of enabling, changing,
or disabling an identity in each application
(human intervention, custom program
interface, intermediate files such as
csv or xml, or some other method)?
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| An MB Foster assessment identifies any
risks in the current process of provisioning
identities for each application, while providing
insights into: |
- Cost savings available for automating
the provisioning of identities.
- Reducing errors, especially when
roles change or people leave the organization,
even if it's only temporarily.
- Areas to simplify the whole process,
for both users and administrators.
- Identify web portals and applications
that can be enhanced by self-serve identity
management, including password resetting.
- Reduce errors, improve governance,
and insure that your organization is
complying with all necessary organizational
requirements and mandated government
regulations.
- Improve the user experience, by simplifying
and speeding up the entire identity
application provisioning process.
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| Let us help you get started today. Give
us a call (1-800-ANSWERS) so that we can
show you how MB Foster can help you with
your application data provisioning. |
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