Posts Tagged ‘identity synchronization’

Is there any open source identity and access management suite?

Some days ago I was wondering why among the enterprise level Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructures, I’ve never seen an open source solution.
Sun claims “to open sourcing all of its identity management software products by early 2011″ but in the meanwhile, is there any complete, enterprise level, open source identity & access management suite?
If not, is there any set of open source components that can be combined together to build a complete IAM suite?

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Openadaptor

Openadaptor is an open source Java toolkit that may be classified as a lightweight Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution. The toolkit provides a framework and components for building links between systems and various middleware solutions.

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Identity synchronization: which is the best conflicts resolving model?

In every identity management solution there is one identity management system and one or more managed systems, also known as target or resource systems.

Identity synchronization is the task of synchronize identity data across a wide range of heterogeneous applications, directories, databases, and other data stores that are connected to the identity management system in order to capitalize its provisioning capabilities and, inherently, all the benefit that the identity management systems brings.

So, we can say that the main duties of identity synchronization is to keep synchronized and aligned identity data stored across different systems.

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