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User Provisioning: The Business Imperative

The challenges facing those who manage and support IT users have never been greater than they are in the current business environment. Today's IT manager needs to consider that organizations have employees joining and leaving at a rapid rate, and that current employees rarely remain in one position within the...

Tags: User Provisioning, Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., IT Department, Strategy, Management

White papers 2007-09-01

User Management Resource Administrator (exe)

UMRA offers sys-admin software for controlling and updating user account information across any OS, user directory and application. Using the powerful built-in drag-and-drop scripting actions, even the most complex user management tasks can be performed. UMRA offers a solution for the following user management areas: 1) Mass updating - mass...

Tags: User Provisioning, Network Administration, Administrator, User Account, UMRA, Networking

Software downloads 2006-03-24

Centralizing UNIX Authentication and User Provisioning With Oracle Internet Directory

Burlington Coat Factory BCF is a major garment retailer, based in the Northeast. BCF uses Linux workstations for conducting their core business with employees and customers. They use Star Office for their word processing needs and Oracle ERP and other applications also run on Linux and some Unix variants. There...

Tags: Word-processing, User Provisioning, Oracle Corp., Internet, Burlington Coat Factory, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, StarOffice, LDAP, Open Source, Software, Office Suites, Directory Services, Enterprise Software

White papers 2005-09-01

Selecting a User Provisioning Product

User provisioning products help organizations to create, manage and deactivate login IDs and other resources for users. They are intended to streamline administration of user access to systems as users are hired, move through an organization, and leave. This document helps organizations to define criteria, which can be used to...

Tags: User Provisioning

White papers

IAM Executive Briefing Series: Addressing the User Provisioning Challenge

Organizations are facing an increasing challenge in the provisioning and management of users in their IT environment. The challenge is primarily driven from regulatory compliance, cost reduction, customer satisfaction, and risk reduction drivers which are impacting all areas of the business, not just IT. Addressing these challenges can require significant...

Tags: User Provisioning, Provisioning, Computer Associates International Inc.

Webcasts

Select Identity - Automated User Provisioning

Automate the time-consuming process of managing user privileges across multiple technology systems, instantly allowing end users access to the right IT resources according to predetermined policies and processes. HP's OpenView's Select Identity helps companies centralize control of security policy while simultaneously putting identity management capabilities in the hands of business...

Tags: User Provisioning, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP OpenView, Identity, Identity Management, Select Identity, Authentication/Encryption, Security

Webcasts

Customer Discussion Panel: Driving Real World Business Value from Enterprise User Provisioning

Watch this Oracle webinar and hear from other organizations about how their identity management implementations provided real business value. Experts from Lehman Brothers, Accenture, and MphasiS discuss their experiences and offer guidance on best practices and future directions. Requires Real Player

Tags: User Provisioning, Oracle Corp., Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Security

Webcasts

Additional Resources

Gallery: New user interface for Xbox 360

At the E3 game conference Microsoft unveiled a new look for it's Xbox 360 interface to make features easier to use and buy, and improve the social experience. by Andy Smith

Tags: Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andy Smith, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox

Image galleries 2008-07-24

Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines

In a direct challenge to the popular Wikipedia, Google opened Knol, an encyclopedia-like wiki site that requires writers to post their names and expertise. SAN FRANCISCO--Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a...

Tags: Google Inc., DuPont Co., Web Site, Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Reuters, Google, encyclopedia

News items 2008-07-24

Facebook gets serious about app quality

Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac

I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distribution

There's only one official way to get "legitimate" software for the iPhone 2.0 and iPod touch – via Apple's included App Store. The much-heralded service offers almost 1,000 free and paid application in numerous categories and has been well publicized over the last week. I recently had...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Advertisement, Apple Inc., Identifier, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-23

iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws

Security researcher Aviv Raff left has discovered a pair of basic design flaws that could turn your iPhone into easy bait for malicious phishing and spamming attacks. According to an advisory from Raff, the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are susceptible to a URL Spoofing vulnerability which...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Spamming, Flaw, Aviv Raff, Phishing, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Intuit cut 575 jobs - is this "user generated unemployment?"

The other day I reported that Brad Smith, the CEO of Intuit, had asked his managers to see which jobs could be cut because there were volunteers among Intuit's 50m users that were doing a better job -- and for free. These seem to be the emerging business benefits from...

Tags: Job, Intuit Inc., Unemployment, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA

Yesterday I sat down and talked with Entellium, an on-demand CRM company that has recently gone away from a purley browser-based model and moved into a desktop smart client application. In doing so they saw a big increase in conversion numbers and the customers have responded well to having the...

Tags: Entellium, Sun Java Studio Creator, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Application, Video Game, Video, CRM, Desktop Application, Games, Desktops, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...

Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Operating System, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience

Despite having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look. Despite ostensibly having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look....

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, LiveParty, Spotlight Channel, Xbox Experience, Games, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox Live, Sarju Shah, Gamespot

News items 2008-07-23

Microsoft turns to users for new wave of Xbox games

Taking a page from Facebook and YouTube, Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types of games available on its console. SEATTLE--Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types...

Tags: Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Reuters, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox

News items 2008-07-23

McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position

Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...

Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23