Directory Services provide the common glue that integrates, secures and manages heterogeneous networks and applications across the enterprise. They leverage LDAP open standards to create a common infrastructure that turns silos of authentication, privileges and resources into a cohesive solution. The key is to successfully build IT functions around business policies, which enables IT to adapt to an ever-changing business environment on demand. Directory Services are essential for successful intranets and extranets because they provide efficiencies and cost savings that result in greater business agility and security, which result in a strong return-on-investment.

Why Directory Services are Needed
Most applications and network services have separate private data stores of user information and privileges. To add, update or delete information for even one employee typically entails managing multiple administrative tools. This not only adds unneeded complexity, but also creates unwanted security challenges. In addition, as networks are extended to partners and customers, the need for increased network security and efficiency is further compounded. The result is that supporting these services can consume large parts of an IT department’s budget, time and resources.

Directory Services enable enterprises to quickly get approved information and network resources to the right user because all systems are synchronized to a common directory. They provide the necessary foundation to leverage all resources as a competitive business advantage. By integrating user management across all systems, your business structure is streamlined and enterprise applications, information and management are consolidated to ensure increased enterprise security.

Key Benefits

• Lowers costs and increases business focus by gathering and integrating multiple environments
• Simplifies management of content, applications and critical Net services into a single business experience
• Increases profitability by lowering network computing and management costs
• Reduces risk of security breaches
• Reduces network downtime
• Allows access to multiple resources with a Single Sign-on solution
• Improves consistency, transaction logging and audit-ability

Key Capabilities

• Support for LDAP open standards
• Application, data and process integration to pull together disparate data sources
• Security management handles different access levels for each group and each individual
• Enables Single Sign-on allowing users to move between all points within the network without having to reaffirm their identity and authorizations, saving time and promoting application access continuity for roaming users
• Platform independence allows seamless integration with current systems and portal environments
• Automation of back-end processes results in greatly reduced time and cost administering user profiles

Solutions For All Your Needs
Effective solutions are specific to the needs of each organization. Caveo Technology address each engagement by evaluating, prioritizing and coordinating business and technology needs across the entire organization with a highly experienced multidisciplinary team. This enables organizations to intelligently, cost effectively and rapidly deliver best-of-breed solutions.

• An evaluation of your existing WAN/LAN/Wireless infrastructure, current network operating systems, and network management model
• A high-level design for your Directory Services replication and partitioning strategies that are fault-tolerant, performance-optimizing and scalable
• A design for time synchronization solutions across your network
• A definition of your organization’s unique security requirements and access rights
• WAN performance optimization recommendations
• Recommendations on how to extend the power of Directory Services to provide a complete Managed Services solution

Technology and Vendor Independence
Caveo Technology addresses the most important customer technology needs by providing secure access to network resources, data and information across the enterprise. Armed with products and resources that leverage the stability, security and manageability of the industry’s most proven solutions, Caveo Technology helps organizations select the directory platform and roadmap that meets their specific business objectives.