Case Study
Major Telecommunications Provider
Overview This company is a multinational data network- ing and telecommunications equipment pro- vider with operations in numerous countries worldwide. Challenge This major telecommunications provider de- signs and delivers data networking and tele- communications equipment with a focus on mobile broadband technology and services. “When the company was first founded as a joint venture, it inherited a broad set of identity and access management tools,” said a spokes- person. “There had been no real attempt to integrate this heterogeneous legacy environ- ment, which made it difficult for operations teams to identify overlaps between different user groups such as internal and external staff, customers, and suppliers.” With some 50,000 internal employee identi- ties—and up to a fur