Authoritative Store Strategies for IdM

SAP NetWeaver Identity Management (IdM) White Paper

Provisioning and other Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems are becoming standard features of enterprise IT organizations. There is not a single department within the organizations. Every single department within an organization can derive benefits, such as ease of provisioning, centralized management control, or greater audit and compliance tracking, from the use of a central Identity Management system.

To do this, the Identity Management (IdM) system must connect with Enterprise systems for read and write operations using provisioning or metadirectory software in order to create a record source. The creation of an Authoritative Store is a best practice solution and is a key component of an Identity Management Infrastructure. The Authoritative Store can be created using a number of different strategies. The best strategy can be determined by a thorough analysis of sources, databases resources, available data synchronization tools and the IAM tools in use by organizations. This paper elucidates the management of the Authoritative Store in the context of Identity Management systems.