Problem

A Forum reader recently asked:

"I need to know be able to effectively compare Novell IDM to Microsoft MIIS. My company wants to move to MIIS, and I want to prevent that."

And here's the response from Johan Akerstrom ...

Solution

Here are few quick notes for you ...

• IDM has support for more drivers.

• IDM has built in support for manual workflows (UserApp).

• IDM has built in support for Flexible strong passwords.

• IDM has GINA/Web-based Password Reset Management.

• IDM uses a graphical designer for building business rules but can call external Java/ECMAScript code if necessary (it won't need to often).

• IDM has support for Role based entitlements.

• IDM has auditing built in.

• IDM is event-based.

• MIIS rules needs to be coded in C# or VB.NET, except for very basic mappings. More or less, everything needs to be coded in MIIS.

• MIIS has no gina password reset management.

• MIIS is state-based.

• MIIS Management Agents (equivalent of IDM Connectors) need to be scheduled for export, import and synchronization runs.

• MIIS has no concept of roles or entitlements.

• MIIS has no built-in auditing.

• MIIS code can be debugged easily with Visual Studio.

• MIIS is cheaper (there just might be a reason for that, though).