Senegal: Evidian deploys an IAM solution to accompany the growth of Sonatel
The leading telecommunications operator in Senegal has chosen Evidian’s identity and access management solution. Evidian IAM Suite will enable Sonatel to manage its information system users, and assign them resources in a homogeneous and rational manner.
Sonatel, a rapidly growing company (+25% in 2006), regularly integrates new subsidiaries abroad. These new users and organizations are managed on local directories, but must use Sonatel “corporate” applications such as CRM, reporting and inter-operator compensation.
“In a first phase of the project, Evidian ID Synchronization groups together the most reliable data from the local directories in a central Active Directory base. This phase has allowed transparent synchronization, without having to change the local directory management procedures”, says Louis-Marie Fouchard, head of Evidian’s expertise center in charge of assisting the client and local partner.
“Once the entire user data is available from a central directory, accounts are created, deleted and updated automatically for sensitive applications. Evidian User Provisioning handles these operations according to the “business” rules defined together with the client”, adds Louis-Marie Fouchard.
Sonatel has chosen Evidian Enterprise SSO to offer the 2000 users a secure and transparent connection to all the system’s applications. After a first and single sign-on, Evidian Enterprise SSO gives access to all the applications a user is entitled to: the SSO module enters the logins and passwords of authorized applications according to pre-defined rules. The security of access to sensitive applications is reinforced thanks to the automatic and regular password change via the Enterprise SSO module deployed on all the PCs.
About Sonatel
Sonatel, Senegal’s historic telephone operator, offers mobile and fixed telephony, internet, television and data services to over 5 million customers in Africa. This 42% subsidiary of Orange Group is the leading operator in Senegal and has become the first mobile telephony service provider in Mali.
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