Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

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Employ user-centric federated identity management to increase customer satisfaction and business collaboration

IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager simplifies application integration using many forms of user credentials, helps reduce administrative costs and facilitates compliance.

• Simplify application integration using many forms of user credentials and facilitate secure information sharing between trusted business partners and divisions within an enterprise
• Improve the end-user experience by moving to user-centric, federated SSO identity management that puts customers, partners and suppliers in control of asserting trust, determining where sign-on is occurring and which user attributes to share
• Implement a powerful, stand-alone identity service tool for establishing identity awareness in SOA and Web services environments to reduce administrative costs, establish trust and facilitate compliance by managing, mapping and propagating user identities
• Use open standards and specifications, such as OpenID and Information Card Profile, and identity selectors from Microsoft Windows CardSpace and the Higgins Trust Framework to enable greater collaboration across the business ecosystem
• Use advanced operational features to ease identity management, including support for multiple types of point-of-contact servers, a new command line infrastructure and improved trust chain editor, for quick identity service deployments in SOA and Web services environments
• Improve visibility into who is connecting to services and mainframe applications and help meet compliance requirements with a stand-alone identity service
• Employ a comprehensive identity management solution with modular software that supports z/OS environments as well as entry-level software that enables collaboration with small-to-midsize business partners
• Operating systems supported: AIX, HP Unix, Linux, Windows, z/OS

Analyst report
Enterprise Strategy Group: Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Federated Identity Management (FIM)

White paper
Security and management for SOA environments

Additional products, services and solutions

Services QuickStart Services for Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Helps you quickly install a Tivoli solution using best practices to help achieve your federated identity management objectives Solutions IBM security management solutions Address two critical e-business challenges: automated identity management and security event management View all additional offerings

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