Tivoli Directory Integrator

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IBM® Tivoli® Directory Integrator synchronizes and exchanges information between applications or directory sources.

It synchronizes identity data residing in directories, databases, collaborative systems, applications used for HR, CRM and ERP, and other corporate applications.

• Serves as a flexible synchronization layer between a company's identity structure and the application sources of identity data, eliminating the need for a centralized data store
• Can help ease the process of deploying an enterprise directory solution by connecting to the identity data from the various repositories throughout the organization
• Manages data across a variety of repositories providing the consistent directory infrastructure needed for a wide variety of applications including security and provisioning
• Creates the authoritative data spaces needed to expose only trustworthy data to advanced software applications such as Web services
• Operates with an AssemblyLine methodology that builds a compound information object from connected information sources, performs modifications on received data, or creates new entries altogether and adds/updates/deletes the new information object to the assigned destinations
• Built on an Event Handler framework that adds to the flexibility of Directory Integrator by providing the ability to wait for, and react to, specific events that have taken place in the infrastructure
• Includes connectors to support numerous protocols, parsers to interpret and translate information from a byte stream into a structure information object, and hooks to enable the definition of certain actions to be executed under specific circumstances
• Operating systems supported: AIX, HP Unix, Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows, z/OS

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