EmpowerID is the first and only Identity and Role-Based Entitlement Management solution built on a Business
Process Management platform. EmpowerID was built around the Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation and provides
a rich business process automation platform in which "the workflow is the application". What appears to the
user as an entire task or application from start to finish in a traditional Identity and Entitlement
Management suite is actually a visually-designed workflow in EmpowerID. These workflow applications
include powerful shapes for displaying web-based user interfaces, as well as the shapes that actually
pull live data from business systems and perform system actions.
As organizations have extended their usage of traditional workflow technologies, the complex processes that
result often integrate and affect multiple business systems in a single workflow that can bypass the native
security of the systems they touch. The increased power and reach of these workflows opens up significant
security vulnerabilities, with the possibility that a security breach or misuse of entitlements leads to a
catastrophic consequence. EmpowerID offers a unique, alternative model that offers security that is "baked in".
A user's actual permissions for any affected resource in a process are continuously managed and enforced by its
centralized role-based security, regardless of the complexity of the workflow created.
EmpowerID's union of Business Process Management and RBAC-based Entitlement Management into one platform greatly
enhances the agility of an IT organization by allowing rapid development of new services and automation of
existing processes on an intrinsically secure SOA platform.
Key features include:
- Friendly workflow designer including wizards to guide users through workflow creation while eliminating or reducing the need for custom code
- Ability to graphically design secure web services
- .NET 3.5 Windows Communication Foundation-hosted workflow server is scalable and distributable
- Huge library of business focused shapes that wrap web services
- All Microsoft PowerShell commands as web services and workflow shapes
- Automated permission-based approval routing
- Task-focused request dashboard
- Request catalog for publishing workflows to end-users
- Ability to scheduled recurring workflows
- Workflows initiated automatically based upon changes in business systems
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