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Microsoft's recent announcement of its Identity Integration Server 2003 is squarely targeted at a continuing process problem for Asia-Pacific organisations.
We believe that fewer than 7 percent of the region's organisations currently have a comprehensive identity management strategy that incorporates identity, authorisation/access control, and auditing across all transactional, collaborative, and content infrastructures, leaving them open to security vulnerabilities.
Given that few regional enterprises have the same scalability issues faced by their North American counterparts, they instinctively look to perceived Tier 2 vendors to solve similar problems.
Microsoft's offering will initially appear attractive (especially to organisations that have a higher tendency to look for technology "silver bullets"), but will quickly prove to be both expensive and inadequate in larger enterprises.
Microsoft's track record indicates that it will take at least two to three releases before it is able to reliably meet this critical business need.
Bottom line: Asia-Pacific IT organisations must firmly establish enterprise-wide requirements for identity management, authorisation, access control, and auditing.
They must also address process issues before acquiring and deploying specific technology solutions. Many larger enterprises will be better served (at least in the short to medium term) by a pragmatic approach to technology selection for identity management, supported by sound processes and efficient execution.
John Brand is vice president, Content & Collaboration Strategies at Meta Group.
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