Integrate Identity Manager (ISIM) with Identity Governance & Intelligence (IGI) for the most powerful governance product suite.

 

IBM ISIM customers accelerate access recertifications for regulatory compliance by integrating with IBM IGI, hosted by IBM in the AWS cloud with SaaS benefits.

 

The IBM ISIM on-premise solution integrates IBM IGI for identity governance in the AWS cloud with an intuitive UX and dashboard with capabilities beyond SaaS competitors.

 

IBM ISIM users agree: integrating IGI for identity governance into the ISIM environment offers vital benefits:

 

  • Clients continue to leverage the mature ISIM framework for fulfilling identity provisioning services.

 

  • IBM IGI delivers advanced governance functions, including access requests and certifications, separation of duties, and role mining.

 

  • IBM’s ISIQ connector synchronizes data between ISIM and IGI in near real time, even with large quantities of changes.

 

  • The ServiceNow plug-in enables users to view a catalog of accesses and request them through a ServiceNow portal.

 

IBM ISIM + IGI Advantages

 

IBM ISIM + IGI integration secures work from home and digital transformation with cloud-based access recertifications and robust, comprehensive lifecycle management at low operational and infrastructure costs.

 

IGI enables access recertifications across the multicloud for regulatory compliance from a centralized portal with a power UI, self-service dashboard, and workflow.

 

ISIM + IGI clients mitigate access risks with vivid transparency into roles, duties, and privileges.

 

Stakeholders manage workflow capabilities in the user identity lifecycle and consolidate access entitlements through intelligent role mining, modeling, and optimization.

 

IBM ISIM + IGI hybrid integration accelerates cloud IAM adoption, uniting existing identity provisioning customizations inside ISIM with cloud-hosted identity governance with IGI.

 

ISIM centralized identity lifecycle management and provisioning automatically creates, manages, and deletes user access to hybrid and multicloud environments and web and mobile applications.

 

Essential Considerations for Achieving Identity Governance

 

Essential considerations favor IBM ISIM + IGI integration for identity governance and compliance over rip and replace.

 

Weigh the risks of rip and replace:

 

  • Project scope creep. With burgeoning requirements for customizing the new system to replicate the capabilities in the previous solution, clients risk paying inflated costs to deploy the new product. Rip and replace can add months and millions to project costs and timelines.

 

  • Project failure costs. Failed rip and replace projects add the cost of returning to the previous solution when the new system doesn’t meet expectations.

 

  • Outsourcing. Rip and replace requires external consultants and programming expertise to interconnect divergent technologies properly.

 

  • Infrastructure costs. There are requirements and costs for the virtual and physical IT systems that encompass the new service with networking, processing, and storage capabilities.

 

  • Operational costs. A SaaS service does not negate the customer requirements for setup, design, configuration, deployment, and maintenance customizations for the supporting IT infrastructure required to accommodate and use it.

 

  • Switching costs. The costs of switching vendors include time and effort to switch. Rip and replace creates a chasm between a customer’s familiarity with a proven solution and the unknowns of a new vendor and service.

 

  • Disruptions, Outages, and Downtime. Downtime for rip and replace is significant, adding to security risks considering the critical nature of identity and access management, since most breaches leverage weak or stolen identities.

 

  • Change management. Rip and replace leads to broad changes in supporting systems, operations, and infrastructure, affecting change management and requiring risk assessments to uncover changes that affect the organization.

 

  • Learning curves. Rip and replace creates learning curves for users across the organization who must engage with an entirely new solution. Steep learning curves increase user error.

 

  • Missed project deadlines. The risks and costs of extended disruptions and delayed ROI are hardly foreseeable.

 

The Benefits of Modern IBM ISIM with IGI Integration

 

ISIM users integrating with IGI bypass rip and replace with its unwieldy risks and failure rates, saving costs for infrastructure, expertise and human resources, and outsourcing.

 

The opportunities in an IBM ISIM + IGI integration in the AWS cloud are clear.

ISIM users integrate IGI for identity governance and compliance with SaaS benefits, critical savings, and unrivaled security:

 

  • Accurately size ISIM + IGI integration projects. ISIM + IGI projects host IGI in the AWS cloud for ease of integration, removing scoping uncertainties incumbent with rip and replace.

 

  • Project success = savings. ISIM customers enjoy single vendor integration between established solutions designed to work together, adding IBM’s IGI identity governance solution in the AWS cloud to the ISIM solution they know and trust.

 

  • Infrastructure savings. Keep ISIM infrastructure and add IGI at savings over the costs of rip and replace infrastructure requirements.

 

  • Operational costs. Maintain predictable operational costs for ISIM infrastructure. Add IGI, hosted by IBM in the AWS cloud, and spare the operational expense of changes attendant with a total rip and replace.

 

  • Avoid switching costs. ISIM customers leverage the momentum of their IBM relationship with continuing ISIM ROI while folding in identity governance and compliance in the AWS cloud. No concerns or calculations for switching risks.

 

  • Business Continuity, Uptime. By integrating companion products from IBM, ISIM customers can predictably manage and maintain the trajectory of digital transformations and business endeavors in progress and start new projects in a competitive timeframe.

 

  • Minimize change management. Limit change management and associated risk assessments when integrating IGI with existing ISIM installations. Avoid the broad changes of a complete rip and replace with its added costs and delays.

 

  • Speed user uptake. ISIM users limit learning curves by integrating IGI with its intuitive user experience and customizable dashboards. The persona-based dashboards ease task prioritization when recertifying access.

 

  • Accelerate time to ROI. ISIM customers complete IGI integration in alignment with timelines that make sense because of symmetries in the IBM/customer relationship.

 

  • Support communications between auditors and IT for audits, governance, and

 

  • Authenticate users from an external user registry to the Local Management Interface.

 

  • Use applicable FIPS 140-2 specifications to validate and confirm cryptographic modules.

 

IBM ISIM users have an expedient route to reliable access recertifications. IBM IGI integration is the optimal solution for providing a transformative user experience for identity governance and provisioning.