Deploying an enterprise provisioning solution is not a trivial effort. As the number of disparate systems and the number of users grow within an enterprise the complexity of managing the user accounts within these systems also increases. Such a solution requires deep knowledge of existing IT systems, business and process across the enterprise. It also needs hand on experience with large scale provisioning deployments.

Enterprise Provisioning is a business initiative that has multiple core business drivers

• Significantly improving global view of user access

• Improving customer service and end user experience
• Regulatory Compliance & Security Governance Improvements
• Enhancing business efficiencies and reducing cost

For a successful deployment of a provisioning solution the projects requires senior management, business buy-in and backing with continuous momentum for execution. An OIM deployment in a large enterprise can be a multi-year effort and must be a part of creation of real business value that requires extensive cross business cooperation. Senior Management must set straight forward path for Applications to migrate to this new corporate IdM model.

The keys to a successful deployment are

• Set goals and objectives at the very onset of the engagement and get “overall” sponsor support
• Carefully documenting detailed functional requirements
• Complete an Architecture Assessment and Scoping exercise to assess the overall effort estimate and identify the gaps that require custom development
• Carefully assess the product features to validate specific enterprise requirements
• Phase the implementation and clearly articulate the Roadmap to all Stakeholders

SENA Services

SENA principals and engineers have been implementing Identity and Access Management Solutions since mid 1990s and have successfully helped major financial services customers with Identity and Access Management solutions.  SENA staff have participated in and led strategic Identity and Access Management initiatives in several high profile financial firms. SENA leverages best practices and uses a consistent methodology in all its engagements.

SENA provides services in all phases of Identity and Access Management from Strategy and Architectural design through the complete Implementation lifecycle:

• Policy and business strategy
• Business case development
• Tactical and strategic planning
• Project planning
• Requirement gathering and assessment
• Business process analysis
• Security gap assessment
• Architectural & solution design
• Implementation and support services.

ORACLE IDENTITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICE

SENA has been working with Oracle Identity Manager since 2002 (Thor Xellerate) and has worked on close to two dozen engagements providing expertise in the best practices for Identity management and implementing OIM. This has included and not been limited to requirements gathering and scoping exercises, architecture, design, deployment, custom development and application integrations for OIM.

SENA has deep Knowledge of the OIM product as SENA Engineers have worked as part of Oracle (Thor technologies) engineering to not only enhance product features and performance but also re-architect the product. SENA designed and built the web admin interface for OIM (then called Xellerate) version 7.2 from the ground up. SENA has since then customized the OIM GUI for several of its customers.

SENA has experience and expertise in doing the following range of work on OIM

• Requirements gathering and engagement scoping exercises
• Architecture and detailed Solutions design
• Xellerate Deployments
• Custom Approval Workflows
• Custom Provisioning workflows
• Custom Integrations
• Custom Reconciliation adapters
• Implementing Role based access control
• Deploying Audit and compliance modules
• Building custom reporting modules
• Custom Development work
• Custom Integrations and connectors
• Custom administration and self service UI
• Extending existing connectors

Highlights of our OIM experience :

• 30+ trained and experienced OIM architects and engineers
• Worked on 20+ OIM Clients so far
• In-depth knowledge of the tool
• Reusable advanced practice material
• Extensive advanced training leveraged by Oracle and Clients
• Reusable library of OIM customizations and extensions
• Knowledge of IAM domain and industry verticals (e.g., Financial Services)