Identity and Access Management

OpenText Identity Manager (NetIQ)

Streamline identity lifecycle management with automation that scales

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Overview

As organizations gather, store, and harness growing quantities of data, external and internal risks soar. Managing identities and permissions is key to preserving security, governance, and usability—that’s where OpenText™ Identity Manager (NetIQ) comes in.

OpenText Identity Manager automates the identity lifecycle from user onboarding to access management and deprovisioning, ensuring the right users have the right access at the right time. By streamlining identity-related tasks, it enhances security, reduces administrative overhead, and minimizes the risk of errors. Seamless integration across systems enables a scalable, efficient approach to managing identities in complex enterprise environments.

Why OpenText Identity Manager?

Enhance your identity and access management (IAM) strategy with a comprehensive solution that simplifies identity lifecycle management, access requests, and risk assessment.

  • Real-time
    identity management
    Enforce identity and attribute authority with event-based architecture.
  • Simplify
    by automating policy enforcement
    ACDI (audit, compliance & data intelligence) delivers visibility and operational efficiency with automated reporting and real-time analytics.
  • Integrated
    comprehensive IAM tools
    Integrates seamlessly to offer a unified approach that simplifies administration and enhances security across the organization.

Use cases

Event-based architecture delivers real-time responses to user lifecycle events, ensuring immediate enforcement of centralized policies and reinforcing identity authority across systems.

  • Leverage robust lifecycle management capabilities to more easily administrate user identities throughout their entire lifecycle.

  • Ease user permission management with predefined approval workflows. Users can easily request access to resources and managers can quickly review and approve or deny these requests.

  • Ensure that users receive appropriate access based on their job functions by grouping permissions into roles. Reduce the complexity of permissions administration and minimize the risk of privilege creep.

  • Create and enforce complex policies that govern user access based on various criteria, such as roles, departments, and security levels. This mitigates risks associated with unauthorized access and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements.

  • Establish a unified view of user identities, access rights, and compliance status. Allow administrators to efficiently monitor and manage user accounts, access requests, and policy compliance from a single interface.

  • Choose a solution you can continue to rely on as your identity management requirements grow and change—without compromising performance—thanks to scalable architecture.

    Key features

    Automate and simplify identity lifecycle management with an array of robust features.

    Intelligent identity framework

    Optimizes current IT resources and embraces SaaS, saving costs and ensuring compliance across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

    Self-service password reset

    Streamlines IT tasks by enforcing mandatory user password policies, covering change frequency and complexity.

    Integrated roles-rules-workflow engine

    Matches your organization's workflow by combining business rules with roles-based provisioning to handle approvals and exceptions effectively.

    Integrated event-based solution

    Integrates with OpenText™ Identity Governance easily to create a unique, event-based solution for effective identity management and compliance enforcement.

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    Professional Services

    OpenText Professional Services combines end-to-end solution implementation with comprehensive technology services to help improve systems.

    Partners

    OpenText helps customers find the right solution, the right support, and the right outcome.

    Training

    OpenText Learning Services offers comprehensive enablement and learning programs to accelerate knowledge and skills.

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    Premium Support

    Optimize the value of your OpenText solution with dedicated experts who provide mission-critical support for your complex IT environment.

    OpenText Identity Manager resources

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    • By centralizing identity management, OpenText Identity Manager enhances security through streamlined user administration, provisioning, and de-provisioning. It ensures that user identity information is current and secure.

    • OpenText Identity Manager supports integration with various systems, including OpenText eDirectory, Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP v3 Directories, OpenText GroupWise, and Lotus Notes. Additional modules are available for purchase.

    • The system utilizes an Identity Vault to store identity data, which is synchronized across connected systems via drivers. These drivers facilitate bidirectional data flow, ensuring that changes in one system are reflected across all integrated platforms, including directories and applications.

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      What is identity and access management?

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      Policy-driven identity lifecycle management

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      Decision-based identity governance

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      What is identity and access management?

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      What is identity governance and administration?

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      What is zero trust?

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      What is multi-factor authentication?

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      Policy-driven identity lifecycle management

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      Decision-based identity governance

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