Identity Management 8.5.

Thor Technologies has launched Xellerate Identity Manager 8.5, the latest version the software suite for identity management across the enterprise. New features include; Deployment Manager this enables intuitive change management of high-value system metadata, promoting migration of configured rules, policies, workflows, resource adapters and other information from development to quality assurance and finally to production environments. This capability is critical to ensuring that change control is correctly and cost-effectively enforced.

Deployment Manager has been enhanced to support multiple users combining efforts to work on workflows, rules, policies, adapters, and all of the other elements that eventually get aggregated and deployed together.

Graphical Workflow: In response to client demand, version 8.5 delivers the ability to render approval and provisioning workflows in an intuitive graphical interface. This capability allows workflow developers to quickly ascertain whether they have modeled provisioning and user-approval processes correctly, especially when evaluating against exception case flows. It also provides for rapid executive and auditor insight into the handling of exceptions, rejection workflows and other non-standard behaviors. It is a valuable tool for documenting the processes being established in the system, by inclusion in design documents and archival into source control systems. It provides an easy way to transfer knowledge between teams over the lifetime of the project. Lastly, it serves as auditable, documentry evidence of critical elements of overall security policy, enabling & reducing the cost of ongoing compliance.

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