Integration with Microsoft ILM
Hitachi ID has a very strong partnership with Microsoft, focusing specifically on Microsoft ILM integration and adding value to Microsoft ILM customers.
Microsoft refers its customers to Hitachi ID to gain connectors to extra systems, such as mainframes and ERP applications and to gain functionality such as robust password synchronization and reset, user provisioning workflow and access certification.
Hitachi ID refers its customers to Microsoft to gain a more powerful data synchronization engine, capable of implementing complex multi-directional synchronization of user object creates, deletes and modifies.
Hitachi ID Management Suite can be integrated with any meta directory product.
The value of integrating MIIS with Hitachi ID Management Suite can be summed up as follows:
- MIIS customers often also want password synchronization
and self-service password reset, offered by P-Synch.
- ID-Synch extends MIIS's functionality by adding connectors
to systems such as mainframes, Unix servers and ERP
applications. It also introduces a user provisioning workflow
engine and a consolidated, web-based user administration console.
- P-Synch deployment can be used to quickly, inexpensively and
reliably build up "JOIN" data, connecting different login IDs
on different systems back to enterprise-wide user profiles. As a
result, P-Synch can significantly expedite MIIS's deployment.
- Where MIIS is already deployed prior to installing Hitachi ID Management Suite,
Hitachi ID Management Suite can lookup user profile data right in MIIS, rather than
constructing its own user profiles.
Microsoft exposed a WMI interface to Microsoft ILM at Hitachi ID's request to support this type of integration and Hitachi ID ships a binary interface that allows Hitachi ID Management Suite to pull user profile data from Microsoft ILM, over WMI, in real time, using this facility.
- ID-Synch includes built-in connectors / agents to a large variety of target systems, including mainframes, ERP applications, Notes ID files and more. MIIS can be configured to target these systems indirectly, through ID-Synch, without developing new, redundant management agents.