Workshop Use Cases

During this workshop, we will use three example use cases for our exercises to illustrate COmanage set up and use. While these examples may not exactly match your expected use of COmanage, they help to explore the breadth of COmanage capabilities and hopefully illustrate potential uses that you can implement with your own use.

The story

You have decided to use COmanage to enable several groups in your organization that need an identity registry and some of the features found in Collaboration Management Platforms (CMPs). Although their use cases are different, you recognize that there will be some overlap in the people included in each of these uses. In addition, you want to centralize your administrative oversight over COmanage use.

USE CASE 1. Centralizing identity management

Your research laboratory currently manages individuals in several different systems for different purposes. You have enterprise systems like HR and directory services, but also have mailing lists, wiki use, and even some opt-in social groups like the one that goes on group runs together.

You would like to be able to go to a single place (COmanage!) to get information about a person even though you know that this information is often spread across different systems. You also would like to enable things like opt-in groups and distributed permission management for subgroups in your organization. It also would be handy if this system can also can assist with provisioning and deprovisioning as well as managing the user identity lifecycle.

USE CASE 2. Enabling access to services for a research collaboration

You have a Principle Investigator (PI) of a new research collaboration that includes individuals from several different organizations other than your own. The PI needs to manage access to collaboration tools and other resources. You have decided to use COmanage to help manage this virtual organization.

USE CASE 3. Guest management

The students on your campus will be asked to invite their parents to gain access to certain resources for as long as the individual is a student. Rather than trying to centrally register parents, you want to enable the student to manage registrations for their family.