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Additionally, it allows the delegation of account administration to authorized personnel - with confidence and security. Each user of ACCOUNT GENEOUS operates within a framework of privilege limits defined by a “Security Profile” to control who can do what, on which systems, and even to which nominated end-user accounts. Each operating system vendor normally provides a basic system manager application to manage end-user accounts, usually one at a time, and by users who need system privileges. These basic applications do not provide the refinement demanded by a professional environment in the enterprise. When you switch to ACCOUNT GENEOUS you lose none of the functionality of the vendor’s own programs. What you gain is the experience of account management from many other companies.
ACCOUNT GENEOUS has been developed using platform-independent standards: Java and HTTP (web). It has a consistent look and feel across platforms. There is no need to learn multiple methods of account and application management. It performs safe, highly specialized, operations on many platforms without requiring in depth technical knowledge from the Account Geneous operators, or any specific native administration rights on the target systems. Account creation is (optionally) template driven. Templates contain pre-set information for user groups or account types on a platform-specific basis. Creating a new account for a user by applying a template is straightforward, requiring no platform specific knowledge. By using a template, the ACCOUNT GENEOUS user has only to enter a few key fields, such as Username. It is fully extendible by using pre- and post- processing scripts (UNIX, Windows, OpenVMS etc). Customer-specific functionality, such as invoking sanity checks (pre-processing) or additional registrations (post-processing), can be easily integrated. ACCOUNT GENEOUS performs essential management functions on multiple servers simultaneously. It creates multiple accounts on different platforms simultaneously with just a few keystrokes. The system maintains links between an individual (e.g. employee) and computer accounts, using the optional Subscriber Database. External Human Resources databases (or directories) can be used for this task if they are available at the customer’s site. It has a powerful user-configurable report generator. All the data sources within the system (archive, accounts cache, access profiles etc) can be combined to produce all kinds of reports about the status or history of the systems. For instance, the reports can be refined by operator / user / account field / time period / etc. When needed, a history of changes can be ‘tracked’ for an individual user account, and a previously archived user account can even be restored from the Archive database. The ACCOUNT GENEOUS manager defines security profiles, which are then assigned to the ACCOUNT GENEOUS users. A security profile defines:
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ACCOUNT GENEOUS-SSO module: Single sign-on allows an enduser to access all his systems and applications, where he has access permissions, without the need to enter multiple passwords. The SSO module enables the enterprise to fully leverage the benefit of the Account Geneous solution and provides users with true single sign-on: with a single userid and password. Account Geneous-SSO is designed to take advantage of the Account Geneous infrastructure in order to minimise the overhead normally associated with a SSO implementation from other vendors. This module may be installed as an additional option when implementing Account Geneous
Password Synchronization Password Geneous-Sync (PGS) module: Password Synchronisation across multiple platforms and applications provides enhanced security and saves helpdesk costs. The same password is used for access to all platforms & all applications using best security policies & password changes are automatically propagated. Users no longer need to maintain lists of passwords. PGS does not require significant implementation work other than linking userids together according to editable mapping rules or to the subscriber-based mappings. This module may be installed on its own or implemented with Account Geneous.
Password Geneous-Reset (PGR) module : Password Reset software- user self-reset of passwords to enhance security and save help desk calls. Users can reset their passwords without helpdesk intervention in multi or single-platform environments. Resets are enabled via a browser-based self-help utility. This module may be installed on its own or implemented with Account Geneous.
Geneous is currently developing a more complex workflow module, based on the web services technology. This will make it BPEL compliant, and is being developed in close co-operation with customers to ensure functionality meets the requirements. The delivery date of BPEL workflow support is estimated H1 2005.
Minimum requirements: For the ACCOUNT GENEOUS server component: a machine able to run a Java Virtual Machine. Access to a CDROM drive will be required for installation. Target (managed) systems include
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