Three new services were added to Sun's Identity Management Professional Services portfolio:

• Sun Human Resources Synchronization Service: Enterprises can link user names and passwords with resources that users need to work. IT resources can be quickly provisioned based an authoritative HR system.

• Sun Role Management Service: For compliance needs and role based access control. The service uses a framework of business and functional roles to control access and provide the ability to define, maintain and audit roles in relation to both the business and functional roles within an organization.

• Sun Password Management Service: Builds an automated password management framework that reduces administrative and operating costs associated with the processing and management of passwords. As part of the service, consultants build out various password management functions including how to process and manage authentication questions.

Each of the new Identity Management Professional Services is based on Sun's Velocity Identity Deployment Tool. Each service includes consulting, architectural and implementation activities designed to help deliver a solution that addresses the creation and modification of users throughout their account life cycle.

Adolfo Hernandez, senior vice president, Global Services Practice at Sun said the services "bring together Sun's team of identity management experts, the Sun Velocity Identity Deployment Tool and best practices to help companies remain competitive while keeping their information assets secure."

Sun consultants and partners can use the services to help their customers solve challenges that arise from providing appropriate, secure data access to a wide range of users via a solution that is cost-effective, secure and fast. Accenture, a partner of Sun's, has begun training in the new services. [...read more...]

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