Vattenfall optimizes Identity Management with Omada...

"Omada’s solution is helping Vattenfall to meet crucial compliance regulations specific to the energy industry in Germany, as well as improving performance internally by optimizing our Identity Management processes. In a very short timeframe Omada was able to demonstrate our requested functionality. Combined with the high level of service provided by Avanade, the result is that we after just five months of implementation went live with a comprehensive solution that effectively fulfills our Identity Management needs.”

Hans Rösch, Chief Information Officer, Vattenfall Europe

 

Omada SharePoint Governance Manager

 


Get the full benefits of Microsoft SharePoint as an efficient trusted platform for collaboration...

 

 

Omada SharePoint Governance Manager enables effective implementation of permissions and site creation policies in SharePoint, delivering a secure and high-performance workspace for employees and business partners.

Omada SharePoint Governance Manager can either be used as a stand-alone solution for SharePoint or as module for Omada Identity Manager.
 
Omada SharePoint Governance Manager is built on Omada’s award-winning Role Engine for Advanced Role Based Access Control (RBAC). Omada SharePoint Governance Manager is developed in .NET and completely empowers Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0. The solution is fully integrated with SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0, and leverages Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Windows.
 
 

SharePoint Governance - Business Challenges

 

Does your company experience “site creation chaos” or unauthorized access to sensitive data? Do you spend excessive time on administration of user permissions and site creations or are these processes simply out of control?

 

Some of the common challenges with SharePoint are:

Difficult to enforce governance policies and administration procedures
        •      Site creation is out of control, leading to “site creation chaos”
        •      Excessive time spent on site administration and user permissions
        •      No central point for SharePoint administration across multiple SharePoint farms, intranets, and extranets

Security risks and compliance issues
        •      Inconsistent permissions, leading to unauthorized access to sensitive data
        
      Difficult to create reports for compliance reporting and internal security audits

Inefficient business users
        •      Lack of user confidence in SharePoint may lead to inefficient collaboration
        
      Inefficient request processes result in prolonged waiting time for business user requesting access rights 
                to SharePoint sites 

Omada SharePoint Governance Manager - Business Benefits


By leveraging Omada’s award-winning Role Engine, permissions and site ownerships can easily be managed to ensure that employees and partners have accurate access rights at all times. The Omada Role Engine will ensure that critical permissions are managed automatically, based on rules like job title and department. Self-service processes using approval workflows are easily managed and deployed when users for instance, exeptionally require additional permissions. 
 
With Omada SharePoint Governance Manager, you can support:
 
Efficient implementation of SharePoint governance for easy administration 
        •      Control automated site creation processes and approval workflows 
        •      Save time with automated, role based management of user permissions and request-based provisioning 
        •      Achieve one central point of SharePoint administration across multiple SharePoint farms and centralized 
               management of partner, employee, and customer permissions in extranet scenarios
 
Strong security and simple compliance reporting 
        •      Remove security risks by ensuring that user permissions are consistent across multiple portals 
        •      Use standard reports that let you easily respond to compliance reporting needs and internal audits 
              
Productive Business Users 
        •      Full confidence in sharing information on SharePoint, enabling efficient collaboration 
        •      Business users are issued with the proper access rights

Omada SharePoint Governance Manager - Features

 

Omada SharePoint Governance Manager comes with powerful features – each addressing key areas of SharePoint governance to accomplish easy administration, strong security and compliance, and productive information workers.

Governance
        •        Ensure effective implementation of policies
        •        Enforce ownership and responsibility of all SharePoint Sites
        •        Centralized administration of SharePoint farms and portals
        •        Fully managed permissions based on approval workflows

Compliance and reporting centre
        •        Standard reports for SharePoint overview of sites, ownership, and user permissions
        •        Configurable and customizable compliance reports
        •        Traceability through reports on permissions at any time

Role-based access control for SharePoint
        •         Role-based management of user access across SharePoint farms and portals
        •         Automated processes for maintaining user permissions 
        •         Dynamic and automatic reassignment of SharePoint permissions
        •         Management of time-based user access

Extranet SharePoint connector
                 Management of new sites with approval workflows
                 Provisioning and de-provisioning of SharePoint sites based on approval workflows
                 Centralized administration of SharePoint, including extranet
 

Self Service Portal
                 Self service area integrated into SharePoint
                 Self service processes for business users
                 Packaged process for site approval, access request, and delegation of permissions

 Central user management
                 Overview of user permissions across SharePoint farms and portals