Case Study: Halton Group achieves centralized identity management and cost savings with NetIQ Identity Manager

Halton Group - Customer Case Study

Halton, a Finland‑based indoor climate technology company with about 1,250 employees across 30 countries, faced a fragmented IT environment with disparate email systems and user directories. As it moved to Office 365, the company lacked a uniform user‑management process, resulting in labor‑intensive data maintenance, security risks, and excess software licenses.

Halton selected NetIQ Identity Manager (implemented with partner Spellpoint) to centrally store employee data and synchronize identities in real time with Active Directory, Office 365, and Salesforce. The solution automated provisioning and deprovisioning, enabled self‑service updates and manager control of access, eliminated manual portal updates, reduced license waste, saved workdays, and gave IT better control of the organization—next step: connecting Identity Manager to SAP.

Halton Group

Aki Saxén

Director, Information Technology