Name: OpenAthens
Author: Jisc

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

No-Code Development

Development

Admissions and Enrollment

School Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Enterprise Content Management

Manufacturing Execution

PDF Editors

Privacy Policy Generators

Statistical Analysis

Visitor Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Referral

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Access Gateways

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Application Performance Management (APM)

Cloud Storage

Complex Event Processing

Composable Infrastructure

Configuration Management Databases

Fraud Detection

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Internet Performance Monitoring

Log Management

Network Operating Systems

Network Performance Monitoring

SIP Trunking

SOA Application Gateways

Telecom Expense Management (TEM)

Unified Communications Monitoring

Vendor Risk Management

WiFi Hotspot

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Blogging

Channel Management

Content Management

Email Deliverability

Email Marketing

Employee Advocacy

Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Writing and Proofreading Tools

Professional Services

Customer Onboarding

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Social Commerce

Sales

Chargeback Management

Clinical Data Management

Construction Management

Fleet Management

Membership Management

Municipal

Online Fax

Restaurant POS

Roofing

Simulation

Text Analysis

Travel Agency

Warranty Management

Vertical-Specific

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OpenAthens, developed by OpenAthens (a part of Jisc), is a remote access and authentication solution that enables organizations to securely access their digital resources. This platform caters to organizations of all sizes, including small institutions and large enterprises, and is widely used by professionals in various industries such as librarians, publishers, healthcare professionals, academic researchers, and corporate researchers.

## Key Features

**Single sign-on**: According to the vendor, OpenAthens provides a single sign-on solution that allows users to access multiple web resources and applications using a single set of login credentials. This feature aims to simplify the user experience and eliminate the need for multiple logins.

**Access rights and permissions**: OpenAthens offers flexible control for managing access rights to different user groups. Librarians can customize access to specific resources based on licensing requirements and organizational needs. Access rights can be managed based on attributes such as job role, department, or cost center.

**Statistics and data**: OpenAthens provides comprehensive usage statistics that offer insights into resource utilization and user behavior. Librarians can make data-driven decisions about resource allocation and assess the engagement of different parts of their organization with library services.

**Account management**: OpenAthens provides librarians with an intuitive admin dashboard for managing authentication and end-user accounts. Librarians can easily create, edit, and activate accounts, as well as assign users to specific permission sets to control their access to subscriptions.

**Seamless off-site and on-site access**: OpenAthens seamlessly integrates with IP authentication systems, enabling users to access digital resources whether they are within the organization or working remotely. This feature ensures uninterrupted access to resources regardless of the user's location.

**Support for today and the future**: OpenAthens is built on international standards and keeps pace with evolving technology. The fully hosted and supported service ensures that organizations stay up-to-date with the latest developments in remote access and authentication.

**Easy integration**: OpenAthens seamlessly integrates with existing library systems and directories, including popular platforms like Microsoft Azure, G Suite, OneLog, Shibboleth, CAS, and SirsiDynix. This feature simplifies the integration process and allows for a smooth user experience.

**Reporting dashboard**: OpenAthens offers a reporting dashboard that provides librarians with comprehensive insights into provider usage, authentication numbers, and active accounts. Librarians can access detailed reports to make informed decisions about resource allocation and budgeting.

**Custom resources and applications**: OpenAthens allows organizations to create a personalized single sign-on session that includes their own custom resources and applications. Librarians can curate resources and add content discovery widgets to enhance the research experience for users.

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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.

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

ID-Management Access Control

Authorization or restriction of access to information depending on role

ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)

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

Multi-Factor Authentication

Using multiple, independent components to gain access

Password Management

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

Account Provisioning and De-provisioning

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

ID Management Workflow Automation

Automated sequence of tasks to simplify processes

ID Risk Management

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

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