IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

Employ user-centric federated access management to enable secure online business collaboration.

• Simplify application integration using many forms of user credentials and facilitate secure information sharing between trusted business partners and divisions within an organization
• Improve the end-user experience by moving to user-centric, federated SSO identity management that puts customers, partners and suppliers in control of asserting trust, determining where sign-on is occurring and which user attributes to share
• Implement a powerful, stand-alone identity service tool for establishing identity awareness in SOA and Web services environments to reduce administrative costs, establish trust and facilitate compliance by managing, mapping and propagating user identities
• Use open standards and specifications, such as OpenID and Information Card Profile, and identity selectors from Microsoft® Windows® CardSpace and the Higgins Trust Framework to enable greater collaboration across the business ecosystem
• Use advanced operational features to ease identity management, including support for multiple types of point-of-contact servers, a command line infrastructure and trust chain editor, for quick identity service deployments in SOA and Web services environments
• Improve visibility into who is connecting to services and mainframe applications and help meet compliance requirements with a stand-alone identity service
• Employ a comprehensive identity management solution with modular software that supports z/OS® environments as well as entry-level software that enables collaboration with small-to-midsize business partners
• Operating systems supported: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris (Sun microsystems), Windows, z/OS