Keeping control of enterprise wide access rights
Microsoft® Forefront™ Identity Manager 2010 (FIM 2010) provides a complete solution for managing identities, credentials and identity-based access workflows across heterogeneous environments. With BHOLD Reporting for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010, BHOLD extends FIM 2010’s administrative tools with extensive enterprise-wide access reporting capabilities.
Information is becoming an ever more important business asset and FIM 2010 lies at the heart of the critical process that ensures correct user access to this information.
BHOLD Reporting for FIM 2010 was developed in close cooperation with world’s leading IT Auditing firms. It provides Compliance, Security and IT Managers with an easy-to-use tool to define and deliver enter¬prise-ready reports that demonstrate compliance and can report on historical and statistical Identity and Access Management data from FIM 2010.
BHOLD Reporting for FIM2010 serves business and data analysts alike. Working with IT Auditors, BHOLD has created an extensive set of out-of-the-box reports, that organizations can create and manage through a simple wizard driven process. The result is a reporting mechanism that enables organizations to manage and visibly demonstrate control over access rights without the need for complex programming skills.
With BHOLD Reporting the challenge and manual effort of preparing access data is no longer an issue. Reports are incredibly quick and easy to produce, enabling organizations to free-up intense resource effort and respond to reporting requirements as soon as the business demands.
Key features include:
- New reports are easily and quickly defined, and created through a simple wizard driven report definition tool
- Predefined reports provide immediate results and reflect common business reporting requirements
- Out-of-the-box reports include:
- The number of people in a department
- Users with an account in a particular system
- Members of groups
- The number of active accounts in each system
- Daily/weekly/monthly reports on de-provisioned users
- Daily/weekly/monthly reports on new users
- The values an identity had on a particular date
- Who was a member of a specific group on a specific date
- Reports can be easily customized, e.g. based on a time range for certain departments
- Provides a FIM archiving function that continuously captures FIM transactions and enables historical reporting on FIM 2010 identity and access data
- Reports can be exported to different external tools for publication and/or further analysis (including Excel and PDF)
- Complements other aspects of the BHOLD Suite for organizations looking to gradually implement more sophisticated levels of access control
- Provides archiving functionality to continuously capture FIM transactions and provide a reliable historical report on FIM 2010’s identity and access data
Technical features include:
- Integrates seamlessly with Microsoft FIM 2010
- Operates on a Microsoft Windows platform
- Utilizes an easy-to-use Microsoft Windows based interface
- Uses open database architecture with the latest Microsoft SQL technology
- Can be deployed in different configurations to meet the most challenging performance requirements
Business Benefits
BHOLD Reporting for FIM 2010 delivers a number of significant business benefits including:
- Reduced IT and business costs associated with delivering FIM Identity and Access reports
- Increased quality of information through minimizing the risk of human error in preparing access data
- Instant availability of compliance, security and IT access reports when demanded by the business
- Easy customization of reports for Auditors, Business, IT, Compliance and Security Managers
