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To meet the challenges of today’sworld,competitive companies need toincreasetheir

business agility in a secure environmentand need to enforcethe performance of theirIT
infrastructure. With the development of e-business,enterprises now require new methodsto manage
secure access to informationand applications across multiple systems, delivering on-line services
toemployee, customer and suppliers without compromising security. Companiesmust be able to trust
the identities of users requiring access and easilyadminister user identities in a cost-effective
way.During these last two years, anemerging concept:the Identity and
AccessManagement(I&AM) solutionhas been developed, based on the users andaccess rights
management through an integrated,efficient and centralizedinfrastructure.This conceptcombines
business processes, policies andtechnologies that enable companiesto: providesecure
access to any resource,
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efficientlycontrol thisaccess,
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respond faster to changing relationships,
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protectconfidential information from unauthorized users.