Identity Management for Large Businesses

Automating Account Creation is critical to achieving compliance, increasing security, reducing cost, and improving efficiency.

Large Businesses are significantly dependent on information technology to manage their operations and diverse set of complicated but critical applications. Buried within the information technology annual cost exists a completely obscured, but extremely large, perpetual expense for managing and tracking identities and access across all of these applications lingers year in and year out. This cost can account for 30-60% of your entire Help Desk budget and can be almost completely eliminated if correctly rolled out automated identity management software is deployed and maintained.

Today’s manual administration is soon to become extinct because smart businesses realize that to remain competitive they need to eliminate this costly, error prone, and time-consuming manual process. Automated account creation and management, also called identity management, is a core business requirement for any organization to remain competitive in today’s economy. Properly funded, staffed, and deployed identity management software implements the required business controls while perpetually reducing administration costs, increasing security, accelerating user productivity and streamlining compliance auditing.

Virtually all regulations and operating standards, whether established by a gaming commission, the SEC, or just industry best practices, have as a core element controlling "who has access to what" and the process by which that access is "authorized". Identity management solutions combine these user provisioning controls with audit friendly reporting and automation to reduce the cost of the provisioning process and shorten the time it takes to get new employees up and running.

Fortunately, the ROI justification is very straightforward as it is easy to quantify the hard dollars being spent on existing provisioning processes - including systems, software, direct labor and services. Some identity management activities, such as self-service password management, can provide a payback in just a few months. A full blown rollout including user provisioning, deprovisioning, approval workflow, compliance reporting, etc. can pay for itself in just a few short years.