Managing Enterprise Complexity

This book explores the level of understanding of
identity management architecture along with its place
in the literature and its use in industry. This book
is based on research into a case study of eight
Australian public sector agencies that had designed
identity management systems. This case study
identified the major elements of identity management
systems and enabled the development of an Identity
Management Architecture (IdMA). The IdMA was designed
as a series of frameworks that integrates identity
management into the existing policies, processes,
workflows, technologies and data of an enterprise.
Each framework combines one or more identity
management elements, along with the relevant
enterprise processes and workflows, into an
integrated set of enterprise process and workflow.
Now both researchers and practitioners have access to
a reference architecture that illustrates how the
different frameworks relate to each other and to the
processes and workflows of the enterprise. The IdMA
provides researchers and practitioners with
architectural guidance and information for the design
of identity management systems.