Moving Toward Federation

Before deploying IDM (identity management), advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather found itself managing user names and passwords for more than 23,000 external users, in addition to the company's 13,000 employees. The solution Ogilvy turned to was identity federation. Ogilvy rolled out IBM TFIM (Tivoli Federated Identity Manager) to manage both internal and external access to its network. TFIM helped to relieve the management burden from Ogilvy's IT staff by allowing clients to maintain their own user directories. Using federation, client networks seamlessly exchange identity data with Ogilvy's, based on one of three major identity federation standards.