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Change is inevitable in life, in business as well. New projects and tasks are created everyday, furthermore the organization and company is performing like big organism where employees are changing their positions and project roles. All of it brings transformation of business processes, new business rules, policies and active organizational structures. To keep all of information up to date and secure is more than important.
From technical point of view it is needed to set up approval processes, synchronize data, integrate systems, format and transformate data, set protocols leading to speeding up IT processes and with efficiency cut IT costs. It is needed to let identity management and identity governance run a dialogue. The way how to manage it is called midPoint. 

MidPoint is unique open source solution combining identity management and identity governance. It covers technological and business requirements.

Intense development activities guarantee the technologically innovative solution for years. MidPoint makes special its open source character with participation of subscribers and their privilege to influence the product roadmap. Timeless open source model allows a completely transparent approach and constantly growing vibrant engineering and business community.

What can midPoint do?

  • manage identities
  • simplify and automate internal processes
  • govern organizations with managing structures of roles and privileges 

Thanks to the professional approach of the Evolveum core team, midPoint became a scalable product suitable for every size of the organization from small to very large. MidPoint is flexible and meet requirements of different organization types. It is ready to encourage specific needs and provide professional support channel and maintenance.

What are midPoint’s top features?

  • Identity Governance – lowers the risk and threats by giving you the opportunity to determine and control how identity information is used, stored and shared. 
  • Archetypes – archetype is simply well-defined object subtype. There are many types of users for example employees, contractors, partners, customers. And there are many types of orgs: company, section, division, project, workgroup and so on. MidPoint archetypes can be used to sort object to such subtypes. 
  • Organizational structure – midPoint has implemented a very flexible organizational structure model. It supports not only hierarchical organizational trees, but can accommodate even other organization structure types. 
  • Audit – a feedback mechanism to help you verify important actions in the system, for example if users have the access to correct system. 
  • Approvals – midPoint is able to postpone selected actions (for example role assignment) until they are approved by appropriate authority or authorities. 
  • Entitlement management – you can assign users some roles and manage them as groups, projects or any other forms that is suitable for you. 
  • Credential management – gives your external and internal users a secure access to certain passwords. Generate strong and unique passwords for users as well as resources.

What organizations is midPoint suitable for?

  • higher education
  • banking 
  • financial 
  • telco
  • healthcare (e.g. hospitals) 
  • scientific
  • governmental entities 
  • manufacturing

Who uses midPoint?

  • IT administrators
  • managers
  • security officers
  • auditors

Why is midPoint unique?

  • entitlements - midPoint can list the entitlements and it also knows how it can be associated to an account. It provides abstraction over the technical implementation of the account - entitlement association. It is the easy solution for group management.
  • assignments - assignment serves as an approved competence to access to some systems. MidPoint supports exceptions in systematic elegant way. The assignments can make sure that the exceptions are recorded and properly managed.
  • advanced Role Based Access Control (RBAC) - flexible roles mechanism - easy and safe to merge results of many entitlements together, the roles can be hierarchical, parametric, each assignment can have specific parameters such as start and stop dates, roles are not limited to the users.
  • self-healing - sophisticated built-in practical and flexible mechanism, midPoint will process policies and figure out what to do with even conflicting situations.
  • generic synchronization - midPoint allows to synchronize various information sources and objects to the form useful and valuable for business.
  • schemas and prism objects - technically well developed solution allows automatic data conversion.

MidPoint follows the practical pragmatic way, good engineering practices and common sense. It innovates your approach to stay organized, secure and focused on your business needs.

 

Useful links

the book about midPoint - read the book written by Software Architect Radovan Semancik about the right use of midPoint to build a practical Identity Management solution, how to deploy it and why to do it in the first place. 

midPoint download - download open source identity management and governance platform here

Evolveum wiki - find useful hints for starting using midPoint  

nontechnical info about midPoint - learn interesting information about midPoint from nontechnical point of view

support and services - get to know more about professional support for midPoint

Last update: 14/12/2023

The midPoint community will meet in Copenhagen in January 2024.

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Last update: 31/10/2023

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Solution type
Administration Component,
Citizen,
Identifier Scheme,
Interoperability Governance,
Interoperable European Solution,
Lifecycle Management Service,
Logging Service,
Organisation,
Organisational Interoperability Enabler,
Organisational Policy,
Organisational Structure,
Partner Management Service,
Schema Level Mapping
Languages
Czech,
German,
English,
Estonian,
Finnish,
French,
Hungarian,
Italian,
Japanese,
Lithuanian,
Polish,
Portuguese,
Russian,
Slovak,
Spanish,
Turkish,
Chinese
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Completed

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