This Hitachi ID white paper describes the major challenges in deploying an enterprise identity management (IdM) system, including data cleansing, role engineering and workflow definition and maintenance. The information presented here is derived from hundreds of deployments performed over many years.

This paper presents practical solutions to the design and implementation of an IdM system, to overcome these challenges. Solutions include auto-discovery and self-service login ID reconciliation, minimizing the need for role definition and user-to-role classification and use of a single, dynamic authorization process rather than one workflow per request type.