Novell Identity Management Solution Wins InfoWorldReview

Novell Identity Management Solution Wins InfoWorldReview

Novell today announced its market-leading Identity Management product, Novell® Identity Manager, received the highest score in a comprehensive review of major identity management solutions by InfoWorld. InfoWorld tested and compared identity management solutions from Courion, IBM*, Microsoft*, Novell, Sun* and Thor, running each of them through a series of identity management tasks based on a common business plot and simulated employee lifecycle. Novell received consistently high marks across all the scorecard criteria—management, integration, configuration, cohesion and value. According to the review, Novell Identity Manager demonstrated clear benefits including “powerful graphical workflow and front-end design tools and perhaps the most intuitive user interface in our roundup.”

“From administration to reporting, Novell Identity Manager proved to be one of the easiest-to-use solutions in the roundup,” according to the InfoWorld article. “Novell had a definite edge in the [user interface] department. In fact, we were already sufficiently impressed, and then they pulled out Designer. Designer gives the Novell solution a definite ooh-aah factor not found in any of the other products here.”

The review highlights how Novell Identity Manager and eDirectory™ tie together data from multiple systems, allowing for greater flexibility and granularity than competitive solutions. It also notes that Designer for Identity Manager, an Eclipse-based visual development tool, allows much of the configuration to be done in a simulated environment, allowing administrators to design an identity implementation blueprint and test “what-if” scenarios before deploying in production.

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