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IT Article Review: Identity Management

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website of an Internet security company notes that "Enterprises of every type and size are increasingly adopting an e-business infrastructure as the primary platform for conducting business" (Identity & Access  Management, n.d.). Beyond increasing revenues and decreasing costs are several other factors positively contributing to the development of and focus on identity and access management.  Vijayan (2004) reports on the efforts of GM and Boeing to integrate access to their web-based applications to the point that users have a single point of  login to the total system. Benefits GMs chief technology officer Tony Scott explained that in the end, GMs change would enable "universal application  access and single-sign-on capabilities for about 500,000 end users" (Vijayan, 2004; p. 1). Boeings Michael Beach said that Boeing would realize "substantial cost savings" (Vijayan, 2004; p. 14) as  well as increased productivity. These desirable ends result from the "drastically reduced number of end-user accounts that need to be maintained and supported" (Vijayan, 2004; p. 14).  Of course both GM and Boeing already possessed the hardware capability necessary to maintain user account login at several levels - one for employees, another  for vendors, still another for customers - and eliminating layered access serves to simplify the structure of the larger information system at both companies. It also reduces the number  of places that have the potential of developing any type of problem that GM or Boeing programmers would need to be involved in repairing, thus reducing costs in areas other  than in active use. Without the ability to break down at as many points as in the past, neither company is obliged to have as many technical personnel dedicated