SWCC Showa Holdings is an umbrella group of Japanese businesses handling development, manufacture and sales of electrical cables and wires, coils, electrical systems, communications systems and related devices. The company works under the slogan “Creating for the Future.” Business Sitution As it strove to share managerial resources across its group companies, SWCC Showa Holdings began to emphasize an IT approach that required a strong identity management system. The NetIQ Difference The company used NetIQ Identity Manager to achieve a workload reduction and data sharing across applications. They can now transition employees in two days instead of a month.

1. SUCCESS STORY
SWCC Showa Holdings Streamlines
IT with NetIQ Identity Manager
Executive Summary
INDUSTRY DESCRIPTION
SWCC Showa Holdings is an umbrella
group of Japanese businesses handling
development, manufacture and sales
of electrical cables and wires, coils,
electrical systems, communications
systems and related devices. The
company works under the slogan
“Creating for the Future.”
BUSINESS SITUATION
As it strove to share managerial
resources across its group companies,
SWCC Showa Holdings began to SWCC Showa Holdings (SWCC) was The NetIQ Solution
emphasize an IT approach that required originally founded in 1936 under the
a strong identity management system. name SHOWA ELECTRIC WIRE AND After becoming a holding company,
THE NETIQ DIFFERENCE CABLE. In 2006, it reorganized into SWCC experienced an increase in
The company used NetIQ® Identity a holding company focused on the personnel exchange, with the company
Manager to achieve a workload electrical and communication industries. transferring or assigning employees
reduction and data sharing across across different departments. “All of
applications. They can now transition As a holding company, SWCC shares this movement was difficult to link
employees in two days instead of a resources across all group companies to smoothly with user access rights,” Mimura
month. boost earnings. The company wanted to said, “and we needed a system that
adopt an IT approach that could collect could solve that problem.” The identity
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
and unify communications and data management system also had to integrate
NetIQ® Identity Manager
in a sharable format. “To achieve this,” with the user authentication and access
said corporate planning department restrictions that SWCC had just instituted
head Noriyuki Mimura, “one major with Microsoft Active Directory.
issue that needed to be addressed
was the introduction of new identity Axio, an SWCC company, suggested
and access management systems. NetIQ® Identity Manager as a solution.
Axio had worked with four different
“We began by reworking the foundational identity management products
network equipment that connects all of internally, and had chosen NetIQ Identity
our operational sites across the world,” Manager because of its flexibility
Mimura said. “With any network upgrade, and expandability. The company
security naturally becomes an important proposed the system to SWCC based
issue. As a result, identity management on its experience and belief that NetIQ
was a major concern of ours.” Identity Manager could be flexible
enough to handle SWCC’s demands.

2. SWCC Saves Time with the personnel data system and the
NetIQ Identity Manager rest of our groupware. With Identity
“We had no method of Manager, we can share this data with
Before adopting NetIQ Identity almost no customization needed.”
linking data together
Manager, SWCC staff had to write
before . . . With Identity multiple application forms for every SWCC also used NetIQ Identity
personnel transfer. The solution helped Manager to simply and effectively
Manager, we can share obtain the information needed for
streamline this process. Mimura
this data with almost no also praised NetIQ Identity Manager their audits. “We’re able to acquire all
features on the system administrator the data we need,” said Mimura, “so
customization needed.” there is no need to go out and gather
side. “There is a regular personnel
transfer that takes place in July every information later on for our audits.”
Noriyuki Mimura, year,” he said. “At peak times, it could
Corporate Planning take a month to handle all of the user SWCC eventually wants to manage
Department Head, authentication and access restriction data beyond basic personnel
SWCC Showa Holdings Co., Ltd.
changes that needed to be made. information like insurance, pension
After adopting Identity Manager, and salary so it can automate the
the time required after a transfer entire role migration process. For
is now cut down to two days.” example, SWCC wants to implement
The new NetIQ Identity Manager its job assignment management
system works with the personnel data “Previously,” he continued, “we would in NetIQ Identity Manager. Says
in the company’s internal system. It run into issues like user IDs for people Mimura, “making this fully automated
allows administrators to migrate user who have transferred departments may prove to be a tough task, but I
IDs and passwords, and set up or or left the company still remaining have great expectations for Identity
change roles and access rights, with a on the system. Those problems are Manager going into the future.”
single interface whenever events like going to be a thing of the past now.
employee transfers, hires or dismissals Learn more today by contacting
occur. The system also offers a single “The biggest effect Identity Manager your NetIQ partner or a local NetIQ
sign-on (SSO) for core business systems, had,” Mimura said, “lay in the large sales representative, or by visiting
such as sales and purchasing. variety of link modules provided. We www.netiq.com for contact
had no method of linking data together information in your area.
before, so customization was always
required in order to share data between
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