Are you facing a decision on how to prepare an Identity Management (IdM) project and need advice? This article describes how to prepare an Identity Management project. The motivation behind the article is clarity and simplicity. The motivation is not to describe in detail the analysis of a particular deployment. That’s what our other articles are for, see the list at the end of the article. The article also includes a practical demonstration of data on the side of the connected systems.

Are you facing the choice of Identity Manager (IDM)? Do you want to choose the best IDM? This article gives recommendations on how to choose an IDM. What to look out for when choosing. Which features are important and which are not. You won’t find a specific choice, the name of the IDM, then the article would quickly become outdated as development is moving forward very quickly. Everyone needs a different set of features. Each IDM product has a slightly different philosophy, focus.

Identity Management (IdM) is the centralized management of identities in IT systems. It enables the right people to access the right resources, at the right time, for the right reasons and with full accountability. IT systems are typically heterogeneous and accessible over an internal network. Management is performed by administrator intervention in IdM or by automated processes.