comparing forefront identity manager vs. other identity managers
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Comparing Forefront Identity Manager
vs. Other Identity Managers
Here we compare Microsoft
FIM with Oracle and CA,
the market leaders
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Microsoft Forefront Identity
Manager
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Microsoft’s Forefront Identity
Manager is quite different from
CA and Oracle
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Some of the key differences
include:
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• FIM replaces the concepts
of roles and attributes with
policy objects
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• The system is more tightly
integrated with the Windows
environment
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• User self-service lets users
request access through
applications via group
membership
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• Microsoft has fewer
governance, certification
and audit functions
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• Microsoft calls connectors
management agents
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• Workflow drives
synchronization
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• Programmers use Visual
Studio to design workflows
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• Access management is
limited to .Net, SAP with
Kerberos, UNIX login with
Active Directory, and
a few others
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Oracle
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Differences between Oracle
and Microsoft are:
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• Administrators can assign
risk points to user metadata
for certification purposes
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• Provisioning is driven by
roles and attributes
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• Oracle includes a forms
process for manual
provisioning to legacy apps
that do not have an API
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• Reconciliation flags users
who have been granted
access outside the
provisioning process
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• Administrators can use
Oracle IDM or the
JDeveloper Java IDE for
workflow design
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CA
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Difference between CA and
Microsoft include:
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• CA is the first to offer IDM a
Software as a Service (SaaS)
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• The database is the eTrust
Directory LDAP, a CA
product
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• CA has proprietary
connections for UNIX, RACF,
Exchange, and others, as
does Microsoft and Oracle
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• Business logic handler
requires Java programming
to assign user attributes when
advanced logic is required
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Bottom Line
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Microsoft Forefront Identity
Manager requires more
programming skills to configure
than Oracle or CA
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Microsoft does not include
governance within their
product
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Oracle and CA are easier to
deploy, since they require less
custom programming, plus
they include governance
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Have you installed Microsoft
Forefront Identity Manager
(FIM) in your organization?
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