Up to date, usable, and easily accessible directory information increases productivity by simplifying employee communications and collaboration. EmpowerID solves the challenge of providing accurate and current information using a robust relation database driven metadirectory. EmpowerID's RBAC Directory offers an extensive and extensible schema to allow synchronization of attributes between common systems like AD, LDAP, SharePoint, Unix, database applications and others where needed to provide a single source for the truth and offer a friendly searchable corporate white pages directory. In addition to synchronizing information to a central metadirectory, EmpowerID also enables live data access to a Person or Resource's attribute from the authoritative system holding that information. EmpowerID is built on a role-based entitlement management platform so that data for any identity, role or resource is always secured and cannot be viewed or edited unless the user has the specific rights as defined by their role.

EmpowerID offers a variety of friendly end-user interfaces for Metadirectory information that integrate into existing applications like Microsoft SharePoint, Outlook Web Access, and custom web applications. This enables EmpowerID to quickly become a central point of employee collaboration by providing the most flexible and comprehensive source of information. Most common forms of collaboration such as sending an email, mapping an address using Google or Yahoo, as well a placing a call with a software phone are available as clickable actions and can be performed in any EmpowerID directory interfaces.

In addition to serving as traditional Metadirectory repository, the EmpowerID RBAC Directory is also an authentication and authorization directory that can be used to store user accounts and roles for any ASP.NET 2.0 or greater application. These .NET 2.0 applications support a pluggable authentication and authorization model called Membership and Role Providers. This means that applications like Microsoft SharePoint 2007 can use a mix of providers, including EmpowerID for a single web-based application or site. By using EmpowerID, organizations save money when deploying access to large numbers of partners and customers while strengthening security and compliance on a Role-Based Entitlement Management platform.

EmpowerID's RBAC Entitlement Management system also provides organizations developing their own applications with the option of moving all security and entitlement logic out of custom applications and into EmpowerID's powerful Entitlement Management system. You can get developers out of the business of writing security code into applications and instead manage security after compilation in a centralized role-based system. EmpowerID makes externalizing your authentication and authorization as easy as tagging your protected methods with an attribute that tells the application code to call out to EmpowerID for authorization.

EmpowerID is a rich Metadirectory platform offer tradition information synchronization as well as, virtual directory access, role-based entitlement management, and external authorization and authentication for .NET and custom applications.