Name: Fischer Identity as a Service
Rating: 8 (2 reviews)
Author: Fischer International Identity

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Enterprise Asset Management

Facility Management

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Accounting

Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Cryptocurrency Wallets

Financial Risk Management

Hedge Fund

Spend Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

On-Demand Payment

Payroll

Resume Parsing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

eLearning Content

Human Resources

3D Printers

Application Virtualization

Change Management

Cloud Storage

Complex Event Processing

Component Content Management

Data Governance

Data Pipeline

Density-Optimized Servers

Disk Based Backup

Fraud Detection

IT Professional Services

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Mainframe Monitoring

Managed File Transfer (MFT)

Metadata Management

Network Performance Monitoring

OpenStack Cloud

Product Implementation Services

Test Management

Vulnerability Management

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Call Tracking

Channel Management

Content Management

Contest Management

Email Marketing

Marketing Automation

Personalization Engines

Product Management

Referral Marketing

Search Marketing Intelligence

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

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Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales Forecasting

Sales

Certificate Lifecycle Management

Security

Car Rental

Catering

Construction Accounting

Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

Online Fax

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Fischer Identity as a Service (IaaS) is an identity management solution from Fischer International.

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Identity Management (IdM) is essentially about creating, maintaining, and retiring individual enterprise accounts for IT security. Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems encompass this but also provide a framework that goes beyond digital identities to providing access to users in various roles in a relatively automated fashion for cost and efficiency, while yet presenting minimal risk to sensitive data or equipment, simultaneously creating an audit trail for lawful compliance. Depending on the implementation needed by the enterprise (i.e. who is logging in and to what largely determines this) these concerns can be somewhat, highly, or totally overlapping areas.

Making comparisons across suites of software and their vendors can be difficult as this apparently singular body of needs is  serviced by vendors in this area in a highly modular fashion who bridge gaps with strategic or technical partnerships and integrations.  But here "Identity Management" Software is defined as software which handles all or some of the tasks related to all of the above, which may be divided into:

-- Identity governance or provisioning (basically role management with workflow controls).

-- Access (authorization or restriction of access to certain information to certain persons across locations and systems).

 ...and the various methods of enabling rapid yet secure access like:

-- Single sign-on (SSO, describes the ability to login to the system once and only once, gaining access to all systems without need for logging in again via help from a server).

-- Multi-factor authentication (using multiple, independent components to gain access, a simple step to increase security, though at a cost of efficiency for each additional step).

-- Password management and self-help for password users.

-- Identity federation, related to SSO, access spanning system boundaries (e.g. cloud access).

-- Directory / User Repository Management for tracking of users with access, and

-- Security Analytics for auditing and compliance...

...and more. IAM software is most usually sold in a modular, configurable pieces-sold-separately fashion, where each module handles some but not all of these needs. Some of the strongest vendors in this area offer high specialization and strategic partnerships with other specializers while other established vendors, via both acquisitions and development, manage to cobble together comprehensive portfolios and subsume all the various needs under one grand suite of comprehensive IAM capabilities. Enterprises have gone both ways.


A later arriving area of identity management software that greatly up-prioritizes speed and ease of access over security is called by the vendors who specialize in it Customer Identity Management, which provides simple customer registration most often via Social Sign-On capability. This allows a user to instantaneously set up an account with a service provider merely by logging in via their preferred social network account; voila, the customer has (safe, limited) access, and the enterprise gains useful information about the potential customer in less than five seconds. While traditional Identity Management Systems offer the capability to do this, smaller vendors who specialize in customer access, with its high-efficiency / low-security demands, sometimes bundle the feature with other common marketing capabilities to leverage the instantly acquired customer data (e.g. email marketing, segmentation, landing pages, etc.), thus creating a (growing) niche of customer-facing identity management systems in the process.

Identity Management

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ID-Management Access Control

ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)

Multi-Factor Authentication

Password Management

Account Provisioning and De-provisioning

ID Management Workflow Automation

ID Risk Management

Fischer International Identity

Identity management software manages information about the identity of software users and controls access to corporate resources

Authorization or restriction of access to information depending on role

The ability to login to the system once, gaining access to all systems without the need for logging in again

Using multiple, independent components to gain access

Self-help capabilities the help users recover forgotten passwords, etc.

Capabilities for creating user accounts  based on roles, group memberships and business processes

Automated sequence of tasks to simplify processes

Identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks with procedures to minimize, impacts of unplanned consequences

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Live environment

Cloud infrastructure

Less than intuitive

Administration tools

Way to configure

Using the tools

Tech support

Test environment

Support portal

Support team

Time zones

Different time zones

Integration with erp

User information

Integration with office

Identity management

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Fischer IaaS

Fischer Identity as a Service is being used across the complete campus by every constituent--faculty, staff, and students--as an identity management and single sign-on tool. It is used to offer self-serve management to manage account settings and passwords, set up SMS communication, and allow access to web resources.

It is able to automatically provision users and assign roles, provide initial instructions for new account holders, and allow a single username and password to be used across many diverse campus applications.

Fischer's support team is always very responsive to our needs and understands the vital role they play in our operation; even though we are in different time zones, they make themselves available beyond their normal operational hours to match our needs.
The import of new user information and the provisioning of their accounts happens very quickly. We are able to have newly registered students accessing their campus accounts in 15 minutes.
Fischer listens well as we describe our needs and future plans for improvements and possible expansion of identity management on our campus.

Reducing the frequency (twice a month) of scheduled outages. But I believe they are making progress toward developing a more robust cloud infrastructure that will eliminate the need for such frequent downtimes.
There are some less than intuitive administration tools, which could be improved. Fisher is always willing to help us when we don't understand the proper way to configure using the tools.
I would like a streamlined way to move changes from our test environment into our production (live) environment instead of having to duplicate the effort.

Fischer has had a positive impact by providing self-serve identity and password management tools that our constituents can use at their convience, not tied to our operational hours.
Fisher Identity as a Service has been a significant cost, but it is anticipated that it saves our students significant time and effort that they can better dedicate to their academic pursuits.
Negative initial reaction--as this was a new way of doing things, there was a period of confusion among our college constituent that required additional communication and instruction

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The solution is used by the entire university, automating user identity life cycle management. The solution eliminates the need for manual account creations and elimination along with IT and other departments overheads.

Integration with ERP
Integration with Account Directory
Integration with Office 365
Password Reset Portal

The password reset portal GUI
Asking for new features could misfire
The tech support portal can use an overhaul

Automating mundane and a day to day manual processes
Eliminating human errors in account creation
Saving tons of human hours
Demands a good deal of pre-planning and real business scenarios. If done poorly the adoption can be very tough.

Fischer IaaS

Overview

What is Fischer IaaS?