A case study: implementing novell identity management at Drew University

Starting in 2003, Drew University began a process to replace its manual account management procedures with an automated provisioning system based upon Novell technologies. Over the past two years, the scope of this project has expanded beyond managing network accounts, to include providing identity and data integration services for a wide variety of third-party and home-grown applications encompassing everything form our campus ID card system to an admitted students' portal. This paper will present a case-study in Drew’s implementation of Novell identity management solutions for meta-directories, provisioning, and single-sign-on. Attendees will see realistic examples of the integration challenges we faced and how we solved them. Among the challenges faced in the implementation of this solution was integration with Drew’s twenty year old legacy administrative system. This paper will show how we have been able to overcome the technical and non-technical challenges associated wi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SIGUCCS
• Authors: E. Axel Larsson
• Keywords: Identity Management, Identity Management Solutions, Information Management, SIGUCCS 2005, Wide Variety