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White Papers/Reports

Our white papers provide detailed information of how UnboundID can help you control your business and scale to meet the needs of your customers.

New – Ovum - On the Radar: UnboundID
With large vendors such as HP, IBM, Microsoft, NSN, and Oracle aggressively pursuing the identity and access management (IAM) market, it has become difficult for smaller vendors to stand out from the crowd. But UnboundID is an exception that is gaining attention from IT companies and telcos. UnboundID is a start-up company with a promising product line and a management team that has a strong heritage in IAM. Version 3.2 of its Identity Services Platform enables realtime identity and subscriber data sharing among telcos, cloud service providers, and enterprises.

Choosing the Right Directory Services Solution – A Buyer's Guide
You're delivering a growing set of services and applications today, to a user base that's also expanding, in an environment where the number of data transactions is increasing constantly. Chances are the directory services solution you're using to manage identity data fell behind long ago. It may be time to reconsider your approach to directory services and managing identity data. This document provides an in-depth evaluation framework that allows you to quickly score potential solutions against their ability to meet these real-world challenges. Learn more about the challenges and the capabilities required, and use the framework to evaluate new solutions you may be considering.

The 451 Group Report: UnboundID reinforces directory-in-the-cloud ambitions with SDK for new SCIM spec
The 451 Group, an independent technology-industry analyst company that focuses on the business of enterprise IT innovation has published a report featuring their take on the UnboundID SCIM SDK. In the report, Analyst Steve Coplan outlines the genesis of the SCIM project and gives the background behind the SCIM SDK as well as analysis of the competition in this space.

More Customers, More Operations, More Data, More Demand
Your ability to deliver services is only as good as your directory services solution's ability to deliver performance-at-scale. Real-time identity data delivery is fundamental to practically every Internet-based service-delivery system, and performance-at-scale is what enables real-time data delivery. This paper will define performance-at-scale, tell you how to achieve it, and provide real-world examples of how it helps you succeed.

Building a Cloud-Ready, Future-Proof Identity Infrastructure: Three Keys to Success
Social networking and cloud computing have made the Internet an integral part of everyday life, and IT organizations at forward-looking companies everywhere are eager to find new ways to tap the full potential of these technologies. How can you use them to improve the customer experience? Simplify and reduce the cost of business operations? Accelerate application development? The possibilities are tremendous — but so are the challenges.

UnboundID Named a Gartner Cool Vendor – Gartner released their "Cool Vendors in Identity and Access Management" report in April, and UnboundID was named as one of the startups and niche players that continue to drive much of the innovation in the identity and access management market.

UnboundID stretches its data management wings as directory market evolves – The 451 Group – The 451 Group, an independent technology-industry analyst company that focuses on the business of enterprise IT innovation, released a report with a review of the updated UnboundID directory platform. The report highlights the ability to view unified customer data regardless of the type or number or repositories involved, without the need to re-architect to support a shared identity service. Various types of use cases are addressed in the report, as well as a view of how UnboundID faces up to competition.

Delivering Cloud Services: Five Essentials for Success – You can meet the challenges of delivering cloud services successfully and profitably, if you have the right identity management capabilities. This paper outlines the five infrastructure essentials for successfully delivering cloud services to a rapidly growing customer base. You'll learn how these essentials can benefit both you, the cloud services provider, and your customer, the cloud services consumer – to your ultimate economic benefit. Plus, we outline why traditional identity management infrastructures fall short, and how a new approach is the key to building the essentials into your business.

The Power to Put Customers First – Making the Case for a Customer-Centric Infrastructure – Learn how a customer-centric infrastructure can help you meet customer needs across multiple services and deliver those services to customers consistently. Our white paper explains how to quickly identify customers' changing needs, develop new services, and get those services to market, increase cross-sell and upsell opportunities for more revenue, and lower operational costs.

Sun Migration Guide – If your organization is a Sun™ DSEE customer, you're probably paying too much for a first generation directory product. Learn more about the benefits of migrating to UnboundID Directory Services 2.0, the tools we provide, and the steps required in a typical migration.

Directory Services 2.0 White Paper – This white paper will help you understand how a directory services suite can deliver your business goals to deploy all the applications your business requires on time, to meet your compliance and risk goals, and to save money.