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Mapping Portal Server Features to Your Business Needs
Chapter 3 Identifying and Evaluating Your Business and Technical Requirements 55
User, policy, and
provisioning
management
Access Manager enables you to manage
many users spanning a variety of different
roles across the organization and sometimes
outside the organization while accessing
content, applications, and services.
Provides a centralized identity management
solution for storing and managing identity
information, which is integrated with a policy
solution to enforce access rights, greatly
simplifying these challenges. Extends a
common identity to handle new applications,
enables applications to share administrative
work, and simplifies tasks normally
associated with building these services from
scratch.
Consolidates management of users and
applications. Personalizes content and
service delivery. Simplifies and streamlines
information and service access. Reduces
costs associated with managing access and
delivery.
Provides secure policy-based access to
applications. Ensures secure access as portal
deployments expand beyond employee LAN
access.
Single sign-on
(SSO)
Access Manager integrates user
authentication and single sign-on through an
SSO API. Once the user is authenticated, the
SSO API takes over. Each time the
authenticated user tries to access a protected
page, the SSO API determines if the user has
the permissions required based on their
authentication credentials. If the user is valid,
access to the page is given without additional
authentication. If not, the user is prompted to
authenticate again.
Enhances user productivity by providing a
consistent, centralized mechanism to manage
authentication and single sign-on, while
enabling employees, partners and customers
access to content, applications, and services.
Delegated
administration
The Access Manager administration console
provides role-based delegated administration
capabilities to different kinds of administrators
to manage organizations, users, policy, roles,
channels, and Portal Desktop providers
based on the given permissions.
Enables IT to delegate portal administrative
duties to free up valuable IT resources and
administration.
Security Provides single sign-on for aggregated
applications to the portal.
Security is an important functionality in
portals. Security can address many different
needs within the portal, including
authentication into the portal, encryption of
the communications between the portal and
the end user, and authorization of the content
and applications to only users that are
allowed access.
Table 3-1 Identity Management Features and Benefits (Continued)
Feature Description Benefit