Identity Management - Implementation Challenges

Implementation Challenges

• Getting all stakeholders to have a common view of area which is likely to come together and discuss the issues
• Expectation to make the IdM a data synchronization engine for application data
• Envisaging an appropriate business process leading to post-production challenges
• Lack of leadership and support from sponsors
• Overlooking change management — expecting everybody to go through the self-learning process
• Lack of definition of the post-production phase in a project plan — for a smooth transition of the system to the end-user community, it becomes critical that an organization gears up for proper support through a transition phase or stabilization phase. This may take from three to six months.
• Lack of focus on integration testing
• Lack of consistent architectural vision
• Expectations for "over-automation"
• Deploying too many IdM technologies in a short time period

A few of the core challenges around Identity Management solutions include - one, a failure to differentiate between identities and identifying names; two, capability constraints around the use of off the shelf vendor products, three, a failure to assimilate the natural growth trajectory of organizations into the Identity Management solution.