Novell participates in GOVTEC

Public sector IT heads learned a great deal and returned to work enthusiastic about what can be done within their own organizations.

Novell presented a very compelling case study with a representative from a major central government department in the UK. They demonstrated how feasible it is to build a central Identity Management solution which enabled user identity across all major systems, reduced administraton overhead, improved access to mission critical information, improved security, single sign-on and a better working relationships between departments.

Novell Identity Manager 3 delivers advanced visual modeling, workflow and self-service capabilities, giving companies flexible, yet powerful, new tools for meeting their security and compliance needs. As a result, customers will be better positioned to simplify and control user access, protect sensitive data, reduce administrative costs, and comply with corporate and regulatory mandates. Novell Identity Manager 3 delivers unprecedented ease of use to help customers rapidly deploy and manage automated, policy-driven user provisioning solutions, which seems to be the prime concern and challenge for most of the Government and the public sectors.

In the Identity Management Market for more than Five Years and with more than 3600 customers across the world, Novell's Identity Management offers sophisticated management tools atop its mature directory server Foundation.
Local e-Government and public sectors are delivering improvements in customer access to services and to the quality of those services. With more focus on such Improvements, Identity Management solutions becomes an essential necessity in this region.