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• Password Management
• IAM Program Management
• Technology Selection

IAM Strategy Service

Transform Security into an Enabling Function

Difficult challenges arise as organizations rush to deploy e-business strategies. IT business customers are demanding transparent access to a growing number of new business systems and corporate assets. In many cases, achieving business objectives depends on the enterprise's ability to effectively engage, enable and transact business directly with business partners, customers, employees, and contractors.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a framework focused on managing business relationships in a complex environment. Logic Trends, through its extensive knowledge and experience, has developed a set of strategic service offerings that assist customers with the definition of enterprise requirements, gap identification in the existing environment, business case and justification, and recommended solution roadmap.

The Logic Trends IAM strategy offering serves as a basis for customers to transform security into an enabling function. It offers an opportunity to make tangible contributions to enterprise business goals. An IAM strategy contributes to customer's business objectives in the following ways:

• Reducing operating costs related to user administration and lost productivity
• Providing a better customer experience by reducing sign-on credentials and delivering a cohesive security solution across the enterprise
• Improving the speed and quality of application development efforts
• Enabling greater manageability of users within the enterprise
• Improving legal and regulatory compliance

Organization, user lifecycle processes, data and technology infrastructure weaknesses are preventing customers from achieving benefits provided by IAM. More importantly, many customers existing environment is generating significant development and administration costs to the enterprise. While some customers have identified several tactical initiatives, a Logic Trends, consolidated IAM strategy ensures that tactical responses support the goals of a cohesive enterprise framework.