An early insight into the future of Access and Identity Management - Invitation to Service Providers

Eduserv is pleased to announce the beta release of its Access and Identity Management (AIM) platform, codenamed Atacama and is inviting Service Providers to participate in the beta release program.

Taking part in the beta release program will give Service Providers an early insight and provide an opportunity to:

• Influence the final relase
• Obtain dedicated support and documentation
• Get a head start on adopting new standards and early access to new federations
• Share experience and learning within the beta release program User Group.

Background

The access and identity management environment is going through rapid change. Service Providers are faced with an array of proprietary solutions, new standards, new technologies and new federations. Making sense of the changes places a heavy burden on Service Providers.

Future proofed AIM solutions for Service Providers

Atacama is the project codename for Eduserv’s next generation AIM platform. It has been developed to enable Service Providers to:

• Streamline the number of processes they have to support to enable access for their existing customers
• Integrate host application(s) to provide a robust, adaptable platform to manage access to web and non web based resources.
• Gain access to new markets via multiple AIM federations
• Adopt new AIM standards quickly and easily with minimal impact on internal IT resources

Act now to obtain the beta release

Eduserv is now inviting all Service Providers to participate in the beta release program. To take advantage of the beta release, all Service Providers have been granted access to Eduserv’s Labs website at http://labs.eduserv.org.uk/aim/. There you will find the necessary instructions to download the software and documentation.

All you need is an Athens administrator account; if you do not already have one of these, you should contact the technical team responsible for maintaining your Athens implementation, as they will have the administrative access required to create a personal account.

All Service Providers participating in the program will be invited to a briefing on this exciting new development to discuss the new platform, what service providers would require from such a platform, and to see how a typical implementation might look. We will circulate the date and location of this briefing in the near future.

October 2006