 Business agility remains an elusive goal for many organizations. The typical global 2000 enterprise has hundreds of offices and thousands of employees worldwide. Multinational companies have to support different currencies, formats and legislation. Expansion and diversification have resulted in multiple divisions and product lines that don't always work well together. Mergers and acquisitions have introduced different—often incompatible—cultures, processes and business systems. A steady stream of new legislation—the European Union Data Protection Directive, Government Information Security Reform Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley and others—put constant pressure on enterprises to control operations and report on activities. Thirty plus years of technology investments and M&A activity also result in complex IT environments that comprise dozens of disparate applications and systems that run across multiple operating platforms.
Agility can be enhanced by applying innovative technologies that help to simplify business operations. For example, an identity and access management solution can help you simplify and manage user access. And it provides a foundation for addressing a broad range of business challenges such as information security, privacy, risk management and compliance.
Novell Security and Identity solutions can help to maximize business agility in a number of ways. Our provisioning solutions automate routine processes such as updating user's access rights when roles change. Novell password management solutions empower customers and employees through self-service, reducing password-related calls to the help-desk calls. Moreover, Novell's Security and Identity solutions enable these changes efficiently without any disruption of service. And they fit seamlessly into your existing heterogeneous IT environment.
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