!!!The Organizations Dilemma Well if all the other parties we have met find [Identity and Access Management] to be an easy sell, why is the [Organizational Entity] not on board. There can only be a few reasons: ! Cost [Identity and Access Management] is not cheap; At least in the short term. A [InfoWorld review|http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/10/07/41FEidm_1.html] shows the lowest cost for the software from six competing vendors to be $68,100 as tested for 2,700 user and the highest cost to be $355,000 with the highest ranked vendor to be $105,300. (in [2007|Year 2007]) ! [Complexity] As [Identity and Access Management] usually involves several different technologies and crosses multiple platforms and or applications, there is an inherent [complexity] of integration of the [resources]. ! [Politics] As nothing else, [Identity and Access Management] requires cooperation with nearly all elements of an [Organizational Entity]. Have you ever tried to get the [Solaris] and the [Microsoft Windows] groups to agree on anything? ! [Policies|Policy] Many organizations we have worked with, even very large organizations do not have concrete policies to perform the [Identity and Access Management] activities. When we say concrete, well just say that no one person can define nor is there written documentation how [Digital Subjects] are provisioned, managed and de-provisioned throughout the organization. Now we are sure your organization is not in this scenario; but that is what we have encountered with some organizations. [Identity Management] requires more time to deal with the politics of the organization than most other projects. !! What are the primary barriers to [Identity and Access Management] What are the primary barriers to automating [Identity and Access Management] [compliance] in your environment? * Our [Identity and Access Management] data is too fragmented and difficult to automate 54%. * We haven’t found the right tools to automate [Identity and Access Management] compliance 47%. * Responsibility for [Identity and Access Management] [compliance] is dispersed among many groups 30%. * Automating [Identity and Access Management] [compliance] is not a priority 18%. * We lack the expertise to implement [Identity and Access Management] automation 17%. !! More Information There might be more information for this subject on one of the following: [{ReferringPagesPlugin before='*' after='\n' }]