BMC aims at single management of a customer's entire ID mgmt. needs

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
07/04/05
Today's focus: BMC aims at single management of a customer's
entire ID mgmt. needs

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Today's focus: BMC aims at single management of a customer's
entire ID mgmt. needs

By Dave Kearns

In this third of a three-part look at new releases by major
players in the identity space, I'd like to focus on BMC and its
recent announcement of BMC Identity Management Suite.

I recently spent some time on the phone with Somesh Singh, vice
president and general manager of BMC's Identity Management
Business Unit (ably assisted by BMC PR's fabulous flackette,
Jessica Walter) who outlined the product, what it has now and
where it's going in the future.

<aside> Speaking of future, BMC last week reported drastically
reduced profits for its fiscal fourth quarter, but analysts
seemed to agree that this was an anomaly and the company should
rebound. See <http://www.bmc.com/corporate/nr2005/062905_1.pdf>
for BMC's financial press release.</aside>

Identity Suite will incorporate products from BMC's recent
acquisitions of OpenNetwork and Calendra, along with other
software developed initially at BMC. The five areas covered by
the suite are:
* Directory Management and Visualization
* Access Management
* Password Management
* User Administration and Provisioning
* Audit and Compliance Management

The fully formed suite won't be available until late this year
or, perhaps, next spring but a three-phase rollout will allow
customers to work with the BMC products fairly efficiently at
first and - eventually - all under a single management
interface. The three stages are:

* Phase I - Improved user experience and streamlined deployment.
* Phase II - Extended integration and expanded portfolio
  offering.
* Phase III - Complete directory integration and strong
  delegation model.

In fact, Phase I will be missing significant pieces (Regulatory
Compliance, Identity Federation and Business Service Management)
but will introduce users to the framework and architecture of
the suite.

In Phase II, the real meat of the suite will be introduced,
including the new Business Service Management piece. This will
populate the BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
- which, up to now, has been mainly a hardware inventory - with
identity data. This will enable the automated specification of
people, business profiles and system accounts managed by the BMC
Identity Management Suite.

Phase III more tightly integrates the parts of the suite and
will add new management functionality so that almost all phases
of an enterprise's identity management can be controlled from a
single management platform. It'll be a neat trick when it all
comes together. I'll be watching, and I hope you will be too.
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To contact: Dave Kearns

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.

Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these
respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.

Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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