Novell addresses finance sector challenges at FT Summit, Dubai

Novell Identity Manager is helping financial institutions all over the world in achieving this level of compliance and become more agile to respond to the market changes.

With a sector focused defined approach, FT summit was certainly the best medium to network, educate, influence and share technology BEST solutions to the financial sectors.

At the Summit, Novell demonstrated how feasible it is to build a central Identity Management solution which enables user identity across all major systems, reduces administration overheads, improves access to mission critical information, improves 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 Finance and Government sectors today.

'Participating in FT summit 2006 was a part of Novell's approach to target the growing finance sectors in the GCC. As the regional outlook in technology implementation for the public sectors increases, it becomes imperative for organizations to discover the best-of-breed technologies that enable them to manage their business seamlessly, whilst complying with regulatory reporting mechanisms, in a quick, secure and transparent way, says Gerard McDonnell, Director, Novell Middle East.

'The responsibility for deploying and managing identities on the systems spread across the company, is challenging the enterprise to keep identity data consistent. It is very important for organizations to manage who, or what application, has access to what parts of your business, how it is being used, and what you can do to make this access deeper and better,' says Jamie Partington Country Manager, Novell Middle East.