Case Study: Baylor University achieves secure, auditable cloud identity management and faster service delivery with Fischer Identity

Baylor University Goes from Homegrown Identity Management and Governance to Fischer Identity Cloud Service

Baylor University, a private research university serving over 16,000 students, faced the limits of a home‑grown identity and access management solution that began in the 1990s. ITS resources were stretched maintaining and evolving that custom system, and Baylor could not find a commercial offering built for higher education that met its needs. To automate auditable identity life‑cycle management for students and employees and strengthen compliance, Baylor turned to Fischer Identity and its Identity as a Service (IaaS) cloud and managed IAM services.

Fischer Identity delivered a managed cloud IaaS implementation, moving Baylor from a home‑grown solution to the Fischer cloud in 12 weeks and building 43 automated workflows and 20 access policies for about 15,000 users. The deployment provided automated/self‑service provisioning, deprovisioning and password management across eight target systems (including Banner by Ellucian and PeopleSoft as systems of record, Office 365, Box and others), plus multi‑affiliation handling, account claiming/renaming and self‑service access requests. As a result, Fischer Identity helped Baylor meet security and IAM SLAs, accelerate introduction of new services to constituents, improve auditability and increase operational efficiency.

Baylor University

Jon Allen

AVP & Chief Information Security Officer