Accenture Identity and Access Management

The average security breach can cost a company between $90 and $305 per lost record, according to a new study from Forrester Research. “After calculating the expenses of legal fees, call centers, lost employee productivity, regulatory fines, stock plummets and customer losses, it can be dizzying, if not impossible, to come up with a true number,” the study says.

That’s enough to keep any C-Suite executive up at night. Fortunately, Accenture can help customers achieve high performance through strategic identity and access management programs (I&AM). Using a business-transformation approach, Accenture teams with its clients to unlock significant business value from their identity and access management capabilities, reducing risk and costs while recapturing lost revenue.

Accenture understands that organizations must return value to their stakeholders, and thus every activity should support that goal. Information security has a special part to play in this regard: breaches erode erode customers’ and citizens’ trust, in turn affecting customer loyalty and the willingness of citizens to transact electronically with government agencies.

In Accenture’s view, a strong identity and access management solution creates business value by building in pervasive security without sacrificing functionality and ease of use. Specifically, it can provide:

• A single sign-on to increase customer satisfaction and employee productivity.
  
  
• Immediate access revocation when people leave to protect intellectual capital.
  
  
• Self-service functionality and delegated administration to reduce user-support activities.
  
  
• Insight into the connections between people and events across multiple touch points, both logical and physical.
  
  
• Efficient auditing capabilities through real-time analysis of access privileges and activities to meet compliance requirements.
  
  
• Facilitation of new competitive business models through federated identity management.
  

Accenture offers businesses and governments need a pragmatic, business-relevant approach that aligns the right processes and governance models to the technology solutions.

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Accenture delivers identity and access management solutions through preconfigured and reusable platforms that offer predictability, repeatability and cost efficiency. The result is a solution that comes with reduced development time, cost and risk while enhancing quality.

Accenture’s approach helps customers increase efficiency and drive out cost from their security operations. The result will be an identity and access management solution that provides value to the entire organization—not just the IT department—by enabling rich, secure and cost-effective interactions with employees, business partners and customers.

Accenture’s approach to identity and access management incorporates:

Preconfigured solutions
The Accenture Enterprise Identity Management Solution packages pre-built business processes and interfaces to common enterprise applications and network environments with Sun’s market-leading Java Identity Management Suite to reduce the cost, risk and time to deliver enterprise-scale identity management solutions.

Process Architectures
Accenture’s identity management process architecture includes a logical operating model, level 0-4 process models and a capability maturity assessment model covering identity management, provisioning and access management.

Proven Methodologies
Specific extensions to Accenture’s Delivery Methods ensure a consistent approach to planning, delivering and operating identity management solutions, proven on more than 50 successful client engagements.

Skilled Professionals
Accenture employs more than 1,400 highly trained and experienced security professionals. In addition, the Accenture Global Delivery Network provides the scalability to respond rapidly and intelligently to clients’ needs and market changes; cost-competitive and high-quality remote service capabilities; and coverage for all time zones.

Accenture offers clients a broad set of interrelated capabilities. Its identity and access management services are tightly integrated with its customer relationship management, public service and supply chain capabilities, as well as Accenture Technology Labs.

As a result, Accenture is well positioned to make identity and access management support strategic, operational and financial objectives on the path toward high performance.

In addition to custom solutions, Accenture provides preconfigured identity and access management solutions based on reusable platforms that offer predictability, repeatability, and cost efficiency. Our packaged solutions feature best-in-breed technologies from Sun and Oracle, and include the Accenture Enterprise Identity Management Solution with Sun and the Oracle Identity Management Accelerator.

We combine management consulting and systems expertise to help clients learn new technologies within a business process.

Accenture’s business process libraries help us take a Six-Sigma approach to solving business problems as opposed to a technology approach.

Process and Methodology Tools:

• Identity Management Delivery Toolkit
• Identity Management Project Estimator
• Identity Management Process Excellence
• Identity Management Business Case and Return on Investment
• Identity Management Framework
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Identity Management

Technical delivery assets help us accelerate industry best practices to deliver projects better, faster, cheaper:

• Identity and Access Management Workbench
• Expert Discussion Groups
• AccentureTech Labs R&D
• Packaged Solutions