They're assigned to the company's 11,200 employees, as well as to Parsons' contractors, clients and partners. When people change or leave jobs, the information technology staff has to update the access permissions. Unfortunately, Parsons operates under steady personnel changes and a heavy IT workload. That means that someone somewhere, at some time, probably has had inappropriate network access permissions. Calif. He uses Oblix E-Business Solution to manage directories for the corporate intranet and to give external users the ability to manage their profile data within the corporate directory.
Tools automate user-profile management chores at external firms.
IT must clean up existing permission lists before implementing tools. That means giving those people access permission through the corporate directory. But corporations must keep directory administration chores reasonable. Oblix's key differentiator, says CEO Gordon Eubanks, is that the software distributes administration tasks among trusted subauthorities, such as a partner company's IT department and users. This allows the Oblix installation to scale as an organization adds employees or partners, and it keeps the IT staff from being overwhelmed by all the directory changes.