IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Unlimited User Option - Software Subs

Federated identity management provides a simple, loosely coupled model for managing identity and access to resources that span companies or security domains. Rather than replicate identity and security administration at both companies, federated identity management provides a simple model for managing identities and providing them with access to information and services in a trusted fashion.

For companies deploying SOA and Web Services, federated identity management provides policy-based integrated security management for federated Web Services. The foundation of federated identity management is trust, integrity, and privacy of data.

Through this foundation of trust, integrity, and privacy, organizations can share identity and policy data about users and services versus replication identities and security policies locally. The sharing of trusted identities and policies is the key to delivering a richer experience for users navigating between federation sites. Trust enables companies to loosely couple their di