Identity Management as an Appliance by AegisUSA

In light of the Oracle/Sun acquisition closing today, AegisUSA existing solution demonstrates the power of Sun/Oracle Identity Management delivered as a hardware appliance.

Who is AegisUSA?

• IAM solution provider
• Over 60 clients nationwide
• Created IAM IP over last 5 years
• Built IAM products focused on specific solutions
• Market focus
• Mid Market
• Higher Ed
• Healthcare
• State and Local Government

What is the challenge with the traditional approach?

• Small Identity Customer = $500K Project
• $50-150K Software License
• $200K PS
• $50K Hardware
• 1000-3000 Employees
• 3-6 month deployment
• Organizations with 1000 users and below may be priced out of both the solution and the suite and therefore may not be good opportunities to prospect

What is the benefit of AegisUSA Appliance?

• Small Identity Customer can’t afford $500K
• $50-150K Software
• $50-75K Solution
• 30 Day Deployment

What is it?

• Appliance Solution
• Hardware – 2 Sun Fire x4150 Servers
• Sun Identity Management Software Suite
• Identity Manager
• OpenSSO
• Directory Server
• Supporting Sun Software
• MySQL, Solaris 10, Open MQ, Glassfish
• Professional Services to Install, Connect, and Configure
• Appliance Support

What are the benefits of the Appliance approach?

• Foundation for Further Expansion
• Differentiator from other “point” solutions.
• Open Architecture
• Easy to Understand, Implement, and Support
• Requires Minimal Professional Services to Deploy
• Solves “Low hanging fruit” identity problems
• Provides Quick wins
• Increases Visibility for IAM Initiative

IdM includes a broad set of use cases, so where did they start?
Password Management

• Account Discovery (3-5 apps – 1 Authoritative)
• Change Password
• Forgot Password
• Change Authentication Questions
• Password Policy Configuration
• Help Desk Admin
• Password Reset
• Change Password
• User Audit Report
• Standard auditing and reporting
• Branding

Federated Identity

• Infrastructure to join InCommon Federation
• Leverage existing AuthN (LDAP)
• OpenSSO with Shib SAML Profile
• Documentation Package for clients

Single Sign On

• Initial Loader and Existing Directory Integration
• SSO Object Class Updater
• Policy and Rule Configuration
• IDM Authentication
• Application Authentication and Simple Authorization
• Session Persistence
• Request SSO Access.

Google Apps Provisioning

• Leverage existing ‘directory’
• Well defined set of rules for provisioning accounts
• Allow for sponsored/guest account creation

This is a great example of how Oracle/Sun Identity Management software can be delivered as a hardware device to increase customer success and reduce implementation cost. We look forward to see further innovations that come from Oracle/Sun + Partners!