We have custom applications that were built in-house or developed specifically for us. Can Identity Manager extend its coverage to these?
Yes. Most companies have a need to extend coverage to custom or highly verticalized applications. During formal surveys of Fortune 500 companies, the vast majority (>80%) of Security Directors, Chief Security Officers and IT Directors interviewed indicated that they would need support for custom or proprietary applications from an identity management solution. Sun’s Resource Adapter Wizard provides a complete development toolkit in which end-users can develop fully functional custom resource adapters for systems that are not supported out-of-the- box. Sun provides this toolkit free of charge to customers and partners so they can use it when needed to extend coverage to these applications. Sun Identity Manager also offers a set of generic scriptable adapters that allow customers to create resource adapters by utilizing popular operating or database (SQL) scripts. In some cases, customers may reuse existing provisioning scripts, thereby preserving their existing investment and reducing t
