We looked at those two identity management tools, as well as several others, and in the end chose to both finally test and implement Centrify to address our identity management and single sign-on needs.
Our conclusion is that Centrify is hands down the most user friendly and effective of the many such identity management systems we evaluated for our business purposes.
Since we believe both end user experience and the simplicity of IT management processes are key to our IT success long term, Centrify was our choice.
As a side note …
Just to clarify one of the framing concepts presented in this posting, the question as presented was somewhat confusing and made me scratch my head a bit, wondering what was indeed being asked.
Here’s why, …
According to CIO magazine, IT Governance is defined as follows:
What is IT governance?
“Simply put, it’s putting structure around how organizations align IT strategy with business strategy, ensuring that companies stay on track to achieve their strategies and goals, and implementing good ways to measure IT’s performance. It makes sure that all stakeholders’ interests are taken into account and that processes provide measurable results. An IT governance framework should answer some key questions, such as how the IT department is functioning overall, what key metrics management needs and what return IT is giving back to the business from the investment it’s making.”
Here is the link for that definition, as well as a couple of others generally for your review and to substantiate this point:
In light of these definitions, as well as my own understanding of the term ‘IT Governance,’ I’m not sure I understand what the term ‘IT Governance’ has to do with these two tools beyond being seemingly inappropriately used as part of one of the two tools names (?).
Hmmm …
Not sure why IT businesses and IT professionals tend to misuse and otherwise abuse the professional terminology in our business lives (other than possibly out of ignorance or for some obtuse marketing purposes), but I believe it’s important that we talk about these sorts of things and collaboratively work together to communicate as clearly and simply as possible with both each other and especially with non-IT leaders with whom we indeed govern organizations alike.
In any case, I think I was able to ascertain the general intent of the posed question, but wanted to share some associated food for thought with you in this regard.
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We looked at those two identity management tools, as well as several others, and in the end chose to both finally test and implement Centrify to address our identity management and single sign-on needs.
Our conclusion is that Centrify is hands down the most user friendly and effective of the many such identity management systems we evaluated for our business purposes.
Since we believe both end user experience and the simplicity of IT management processes are key to our IT success long term, Centrify was our choice.
As a side note …
Just to clarify one of the framing concepts presented in this posting, the question as presented was somewhat confusing and made me scratch my head a bit, wondering what was indeed being asked.
Here’s why, …
According to CIO magazine, IT Governance is defined as follows:
What is IT governance?
“Simply put, it’s putting structure around how organizations align IT strategy with business strategy, ensuring that companies stay on track to achieve their strategies and goals, and implementing good ways to measure IT’s performance. It makes sure that all stakeholders’ interests are taken into account and that processes provide measurable results. An IT governance framework should answer some key questions, such as how the IT department is functioning overall, what key metrics management needs and what return IT is giving back to the business from the investment it’s making.”
Here is the link for that definition, as well as a couple of others generally for your review and to substantiate this point:
* CIO - www.cio.com/article/2438931/governance/it-governance-definition-and-solutions.html
* Gartner - www.gartner.com/it-glossary/it-governance/
* Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_governance_of_information_technology
In light of these definitions, as well as my own understanding of the term ‘IT Governance,’ I’m not sure I understand what the term ‘IT Governance’ has to do with these two tools beyond being seemingly inappropriately used as part of one of the two tools names (?).
Hmmm …
Not sure why IT businesses and IT professionals tend to misuse and otherwise abuse the professional terminology in our business lives (other than possibly out of ignorance or for some obtuse marketing purposes), but I believe it’s important that we talk about these sorts of things and collaboratively work together to communicate as clearly and simply as possible with both each other and especially with non-IT leaders with whom we indeed govern organizations alike.
In any case, I think I was able to ascertain the general intent of the posed question, but wanted to share some associated food for thought with you in this regard.