IBM Directory Integrator

Summary
IBM Directory Integrator is a transformation and integration, development and deployment product that helps customers quickly and effectively build metadirectory solutions by integrating applicationspecific data sources to provide a consistent, enterprise-level view of identity information. It is designed to merge data residing in directories, databases, collaborative systems, applications used for human resources (HR), customer relationship management (CRM), and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and other corporate applications. By serving as a flexible and extensible, integration layer between a company's identity infrastructure and the sources of identity data, IBM Directory Integrator facilitates the deployment of an enterprise directory solution. With the enterprise identity infrastructure being maintained consistently and accurately, the data can then be used by a wide variety of applications ranging from security and provisioning to advanced Web services.

Architecture
100% Java, dataflowbased approach to data transformation and integration
Domino Domino HR HR

Deltas

Deltas Output IBM IBM Directory Directory Server Server

IBM Directory Integrator

HR HR Input Lookup Lookup

Windows Windows 2000 2000

Web Web App App

One-to-one One-to-many Many-to-one Many-to-many Dataflow by dataflow

Business Pains
Many companies have tens and hundreds of disparate application directories. This creates significant challenges in managing application directories, managing user access and managing the associated security risks. Application developers require a single authoritative directory source for data. However, most sources are not up to date, accurate, consistent or comprehensive. Maintaining many discrete data sources requires a significant amount of labor-intensive manual operation to check for duplicates, errors, inconsistencies and to generally keep the data up to date. This is often an expensive no-win activity. User frustrations and inefficiencies are common because users dont know where to find specific data and they may find a data source that is presenting inaccurate or out-of-date data. The cost in terms of time to find data can be significant. High quality customer data is key to fully leveraging the customer base. Cross-selling and targeted sales require consistent, accurate and comprehensive data.

Benefits of Directory Integrator

1 2 3 4 5

Companies can now create an enterprise directory as the authoritative source for identity information or synchronize data seamlessly and centrally between all disparate directories to enable cost-effective and consistent management of information, access and security. Applications can now be directed towards an up-to-date, accurate, consistent and comprehensive data source through integrating and synchronizing existing data sources. Central management of all data sources enables cost-effective management through automation that provides high quality data, which is kept up to date and consistent with minimal human intervention. Present users with one location for information and ensure it is easy to update. Users become more productive and more efficient. IBM Blue Pages is an example of hundreds of local directory sources presented seamlessly through one front-end. Sophisticated tools help clean data and then data synchronization and integration helps maintain high quality data easily and automatically so that revenues can be maximized.

Tivoli Integrated Identity Management IBM Tivoli identity management solutions help quickly realize ROI by bringing users and applications online fast, while effectively managing users, access rights and privacy preferences throughout the identity lifecycle. These solutions can consistently enforce security and privacy policies across the e-business infrastructure, reduce overall security administration costs, and ultimately, increase employee productivity and customer satisfaction. Tivoli has focused upon providing customers with rapid business benefit and this is demonstrated through independent analyst support, industry awards and, most importantly, through very high levels of customer satisfaction. Questions to Determine Potential Business Benefit
How many directories do you have in your infrastructure? How difficult is it for users to find the information they need? Is data duplicated around the organization? Is data held in consistent formats, and kept up-to-date and accurate?

Responsibility Areas Benefiting Most

Application development. Design authority/architects.

Web Link Data Sheet White Paper Success Stories Tivoli Security

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/directory-integrator/ ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/pm/sp/n/tid14028usen/TID14028USEN.PDF ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/network/directory/whitepapers/dir-integrator-paper.pdf http://w3-01.ibm.com/sales/ssi/crmd.html (Search Software = Tivoli Directory Integrator) http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/security/