Bob Worner - Identity Management Podcast Series - Sweet Self-Service

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Everybody knows that identity management is a critical aspect of IT these days. But when was the last time you heard the words "practical" and "simplified" associated with deploying an enterprise identity management solution, particularly for a Microsoft platform? (It's probably been awhile ...)

Now, BMC Software's Bob Worner is here to tell you that a solution is available that can leverage your own expense and experience around using Microsoft infrastructure technology to achieve efficient identity management along with a whole set of Web-based self-service applications built around password management, requests for application access, and more. By utilizing BMC Identity Management for .Net along with its Magic Service Desk implementation, you'll have a solution that can provide an end-to-end Identity Management platform that supports multiple user types, applications, and cross-platform environments.

Identity Platform for .Net was built to maintain interoperability on standards-based protocols and common languages that the customer's firewalls will understand; also, customers will have the flexibility to deploy the specifications that make sense to them, with the ability to connect with partners within that model who may not be using that specification.

As Web services emerge as a more dominant and critical factor in IT, so, too, do solutions, particularly identity management solutions, that enable interoperability and seamless management, for administrators and for the end user. IT as self-service? Not today ... but maybe tomorrow ...

Resources

Understanding the Identity Management Roadmap and the Role of Your Microsoft Infrastructure (PDF)

BMC Identity Management

Bio

Bob Worner is the director of Solution Line Management, Identity Management Business Unit, for BMC Software. With more than 20 years of experience in software architecture, design, and development, Bob is responsible for long-term market analysis and business development of BMC Software’s identity management product solutions. This includes working closely with customers; analysts; technology, and business partners; marketing, product management, and the office of the CTO to provide product guidance and business.

Production Credits

Ynema Mangum, Producer, Show Host
Dana Farver, Communities Editor-in-Chief
Tom Parish, Audio Producer
Kimberly Stone, Web Development Manager
Scott Ebner, Web Developer

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