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Comparing forefront identity manager vs. other identity managers
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Comparing Forefront Identity Manager vs. Other Identity Managers
2. Here we compare Microsoft FIM with Oracle and CA,
the market leaders
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3. Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager
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4. Microsoft’s Forefront Identity Manager is quite different from CA and Oracle
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5. Some of the key differences include:
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6. •FIM replaces the concepts of roles and attributes with policy objects
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7. •The system is more tightly integrated with the Windows environment
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8. •User self-service lets users request access through applications via group membership
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9. •Microsoft has fewer governance, certification and audit functions
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10. •Microsoft calls connectors management agents
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12. •Programmers use Visual Studio to design workflows
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13. •Access management is limited to .Net, SAP with Kerberos, UNIX login with Active Directory, and a few others
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14. Oracle
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15. Differences between Oracle and Microsoft are:
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16. •Administrators can assign risk points to user metadata for certification purposes
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17. •Provisioning is driven by roles and attributes
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18. •Oracle includes a forms process for manual provisioning to legacy apps that do not have an API
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19. •Reconciliation flags users who have been granted access outside the provisioning process
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20. •Administrators can use Oracle IDM or the JDeveloperJava IDE for workflow design
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21. CA
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22. Difference between CA and Microsoft include:
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23. •CA is the first to offer IDM a Software as a Service (SaaS)
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24. •The database is the eTrustDirectory LDAP, a CA product
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25. •CA has proprietary connections for UNIX, RACF, Exchange, and others, as does Microsoft and Oracle
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26. •Business logic handler requires Java programming to assign user attributes when advanced logic is required
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27. Bottom Line
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28. Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager requires more programming skills to configure than Oracle or CA
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29. Microsoft does not include governance within their product
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30. Oracle and CA are easier to deploy, since they require less custom programming, plus they include governance
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31. Have youinstalled Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) in your organization?
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32. Please share yourthoughts in the Comments section below
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