4. COmanage Capabilities
What capabilities should you consider as you select (or build) a registry for your higher education or research organization? COmanage has the following capabilities.
Onboarding Capabilities
Onboarding is how the electronic identities for people come into COmanage so they can be managed. There are two general categories of onboarding: 1) Enrollment directly into the person registry, 2) Consumption from other systems of record (SOR).COmanage provides flexible onboarding models to establish person accounts in your systems.
Match and Linking Capabilities
As you onboard individuals from potentially multiple processes, it will be important to match and link these records to establish a single record to represent each person. COmanage has a sophisticated matching and linking capability to help ensure clean records.
Identifier Capabilities
In order to link information to other systems, or even keep records connected among your own systems, it will be important to uniquely identify people and other concepts using identifiers. COmanage helps ensure that the IDs that you use are unique.
User Life Cycle Capabilities
It is common for individuals to have different roles and connections to your institution under different circumstances. COmanage helps you to establish and manage a record of these relationships.
Provisioning Capabilities
Once you have a single record for each of your users, you can use this information to provision access to systems, services and resources. COmanage can handle simple provisioning when your needs are modest, but also integrates with tools like Grouper to handle more complicated provisioning needs.
Web SSO Capabilities
Your identity registry should seamlessly integrate with whichever web SSO solution your organization leverages and not impose its own SSO requirements. COmanage is web SSO agnostic and can integrate with any SSO solution that integrates with Apache HTTP Server, including SAML (Shibboleth), OIDC (mod\_auth\_openidc), or even CAS.
Efficiency Capabilities
Today's identity management tools need to work the way you expect modern web tools to work and not get in your way. COmanage includes a RESTful API, supports bulk operations, and includes a fast and comprehensive search capability.
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