Courion Access Assurance Products

Courion's access assurance solutions automate business processes and simultaneously drive down cost, increase security, and enhance service quality for our customers.

Courion's Access Assurance Suite, formerly known as the Enterprise Provisioning Suite, consists of the following fully integrated products that combine to deliver a complete solution for creating, managing and monitoring user access rights.

	AccountCourier	Courion's user provisioning solution enables enterprises to fully automate new hire, promotion/transfer and termination processes. With its flexible workflow engine and ability to connect to multiple authoritative sources, AccountCourier provides a common access management environment for both IT accounts and physical assets.
	RoleCourier	Courion's role lifecycle management solution automates role creation and ongoing role management, enabling organizations to effectively align business roles with IT accounts and access rights. RoleCourier's unique hybrid approach combines "top-down" role design and "bottoms-up" role mining to create a platform for robust long-term role lifecycle management that flexibly adapts to today's changing business environment.
	PasswordCourier	Courion's password management solution enforces consistently strong password policies and enables users to instantly and securely reset their own passwords on enterprise systems, applications, and Web portals. Transparent synchronization lets users use one password to access multiple systems, improving convenience, enhancing security, and increasing adoption. Multiple self-service entry points are available, such as Web, desktop PC, voice authentication, IVR, or via support staff.
	ComplianceCourier	Courion's access compliance and policy management solution provides organizations the ability to automate verification of access rights and administer self-service policy awareness training and testing. It extends the responsibility and accountability for compliance to the most appropriate resources, enabling business users to monitor policy enforcement.
	CertificateCourier	Courion's digital certificate provisioning solution works with your existing public key infrastructure (PKI) to automate your digital certificate registration and recovery process.
	Enterprise SSO	Courion's enterprise single sign-on solution delivers on the promise of fast and simplified web and intranet access by allowing users to sign on to multiple applications using a single set of log-on credentials.
	Solutions for SharePoint	Courion's SharePoint compliance solutions enable IT administrators or security personnel to reduce risk by highlighting sites that are not in compliance with security policy or industry best practices and enabling them to bring the sites into compliance by remediating inappropriate access.

The Courion Advantage

Business Agility

With Courion’s “start anywhere” approach, customers can focus on their most immediate pain points and demonstrate quick business value. Courion software uses an industry standard service-oriented architecture (SOA) which leverages your existing infrastructure and does not require proprietary databases, directories, application servers and/or web servers. Eliminating the need for proprietary components means your IT staff don't require additional skills and maintenance is simpler, all leading to lower on-going expense.

Point-and-click Deployment

Courion's powerful workflow engine delivers dynamic workflow generation and dynamic role and rule generation, while point-and-click configuration capabilities streamline implementation times to a fraction of competitive solutions. Courion's connector framework is unique in two respects. Connectors are isolated from business logic, making it much easier to customize and modify them, and they can be configured using a point-and-click utility.

Ease of Use

Courion's intuitive web-based administrative interface and superior infrastructure integration delivers the ability to respond to business change with minimal administrative or programming effort. The familiar nature of the user interface is easy for line-of-business users to operate with minimal training.

Industry-leading Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Customers choose Courion because they can deploy and modify the system with less effort as their business needs change. The powerful combination of point-and-click configuration capabilities, flexible infrastructure, extensive connector library and industry-leading professional services expertise delivers lower total cost of ownership than our competition. One proof point is that Courion's ratio of license to services is typically about 1:1, or less, compared with the stack vendors who usually require anywhere from 1:2 to as much as 1:5.

Easier configuration, shorter deployment time, lower services costs and lower on-going maintenance costs all deliver lower total cost of ownership.

Enterprise-caliber Architecture

Courion’s Access Assurance solutions all run on a multi-tier platform implemented using an industry standard, service-oriented architecture. Three logical tiers deliver enterprise-caliber reliability, scalability and performance because they can be deployed on a single machine or distributed across multiple servers for higher throughput or improved availability. Communications between the logical layers utilizes secure, encrypted web services protocols.

Publisher Service

The Publisher Service manages all user interactions. This layer supports the range of various access options available to the user: desktop PC, web browser, telephone keypad, interactive voice response, standalone kiosk or help desk interface. The Publisher Service layer can be embedded in an enterprise portal and customized or branded with the customer’s logo and color scheme, providing the user with a familiar look-and-feel.

Application Platform

The Application Platform handles all system business logic: workflows, validation and authorization, data management, connector interactions, etc. It contains and manages system configuration files, such as the IdentityMap™, as well as audit transaction logs. Custom reporting functions are available for administrators, and a wide variety of sample reports are available out-of-the-box. Courion’s application platform is based on the Microsoft .NET Framework and meets the high standards of reliability, availability and scalability.

Connector Framework Services

The Courion Connector Framework manages interactions with target systems. Courion connectors are unique in the industry in several key respects. Where other IdM systems might typically use connectors for just for provisioning (add/create/delete/query), Courion connectors provide a wide range of services, including authentication, notification, policy, trigger and reset. And Courion's connectors are light-weight, without extensive business logic, making it easier to modify and update them to meet changing industry requirements.

Innovative Dynamic Link Technology

The Connector Framework includes Courion’s exclusive Dynamic Link technology that extends the core system to integrate with a wide variety of system services: 

• IdentityLink™ -The IdentityLink connection leverages existing databases and directories in real-time, enabling your workflows and rules to use the most current and reliable identity and user data that already exists within your enterprise.
• ServiceLink™ - The ServiceLink connection links in real-time to existing service desk systems, enabling you to leverage your current tools to track the details of every user provisioning action.
• AssetLink™ - The AssetLink connection extends provisioning beyond IT applications to include managing access to tangible assets – such as mobile phones, laptops, vehicles, and security badges – by providing a bi-directional, real-time connection to a variety of widely used asset management systems.
• AuditLink™ -The AuditLink connection monitors all provisioning activity, records detailed transaction data and automatically creates, updates and closes tickets in your help desk application.
• PolicyLink™ - The PolicyLink connection works in conjunction with Dynamic Communities technology to virtualize your policy stores and to build communities out of your infrastructure, thereby modeling your business rules and processes. 

Connector Library

Courion’s rich connector library contains hundreds of connectors for a wide range of platforms, including operating systems (desktop PCs, servers, mainframes), directories, networks, databases, security systems, help desks, middleware, and packaged enterprise applications, such as ERP (SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards. etc.), industry-specific (McKesson, MEDITECH, Epic, etc.), and many more. Courion’s Rapid Development Kit is also available to create custom connectors where no standard connector is available.

The Courion Connector Framework can be deployed in a multi-tier configuration, using one or more servers. This can be useful in a number of situations:

• A target system is located remotely in a distributed network; placing the appropriate connector near the target system improves responsiveness for remote users.
• A target system is hosting mission-critical infrastructure (such as an enterprise directory); using multiple connector servers to communicate with the target provides higher availability and overall performance.
• A customized target system is difficult to manage; isolating a connector to that system on its own dedicated server can minimize any negative impact on other connectors.

Backed by Industry-Proven Services

Each solution in Courion's portfolio of Access Assurance products is backed by world-class, expert services delivered directly by Courion or by our Certified Solution Partners. The flexibility and adaptability of the Courion technology platform enables us to deliver the optimal combination of products and services to meet customer business needs. The discovery and implementation methodology used allows customers to efficiently achieve the desired level of policy automation for their targeted business processes. Through our broad array of service capabilities, Courion’s identity management consultants, engineers, and service partners deliver the lifecycle of strategic services and support required to achieve timely deployments, a process for capturing and tracking measurable results, cost-savings, and significant increases in your company’s security and service quality.

Contact Courion for more information on how the Courion Access Assurance products can deliver results to your business.