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No matter what type of identity, directory or enterprise information project you tackle, there are two fundamental and conflicting business requirements that must be resolved before deployment.
- » Identity projects must be able to cater to changing needs of enterprises and the applications that support them. A flexible infrastructure that can easily adapt to continuously changing and evolving business models and processes, is key to the success of any organization.
- » Organizations have an existing set of applications, IT infrastructure, data repositories and identity repositories that serve existing needs well. The challenges for an enterprise arise, when these repositories are needed to support new applications, but cannot be modified to meet the new application requirements. Another scenario is that new applications need information from multiple repositories but are unable to consume it in a format that they understand.
In addition, most organizations want to leverage as much of the original, native functionality of its "off the shelf" applications without resorting to complex, tightly bound integration.
Without a proper identity infrastructure, these constraints can tremendously impact the timeline, cost and effectiveness of any IdM deployment. Projects such as access management, provisioning and other identity-driven deployments need complete and integrated identity data. Each application, however, wants a unique view of the data with its own set of attributes that it can control.
This is why identity and context virtualization is critical for successful IdM deployments. Solving integration challenges, without modifying the original data source or application is best achieved through virtualization. This is the driving principle behind the RadiantOne Identity and Context Virtualization Platform.
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