COUNTRY FOCUS : CHINA
Haier Group , a consumer electronics manufacturer , has simplified management of access rights , making identity management a tool for business enablement , with NetIQ Identity Manager and NetIQ Access Manager from Micro Focus .
Haier Group makes identity management a tool for business enablement with Micro Focus
oOverview
Headquartered in Qingdao , China , Haier Group designs , manufactures and sells home appliances and consumer electronics . A forerunner in the industry , Haier has one of the largest market shares in domestic appliances worldwide .
Challenge
For businesses with large numbers of employees , where people are constantly joining , leaving and moving within the organization , it can often prove difficult to control who has access to which applications .
This was the challenge facing Haier Group , as Xinwen Liu , Project Manager , said : “ Managing access is absolutely essential for security . When an employee leaves the company , we need to ensure we cancel their access rights to all our systems .”
Previously , access to applications was handled separately ; for every system an employee needed to use , they had to be manually provisioned . Likewise , when someone left the company they would need to be deleted from each system individually .
Liu said : “ Not only was this manual approach excessively time-consuming , but also there was the risk that a past employee could retain access to our business systems .”
Another consequence was that employees needed to remember a different set of log-in details for each application . Logging in separately was a nuisance for users , and it was not uncommon for users to forget their passwords .
Solution
Haier evaluated a number of different vendors and solutions and determined that NetIQ Identity Manager and NetIQ Access Manager offered the best price-
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