Case Study: Johnsonville Sausage achieves 80% reduction in user management time and costs with NetIQ Identity Manager and Access Manager

Johnsonville Sausage - Customer Case Study

Johnsonville Sausage, a leading U.S. brand with 1,300 employees and 500 external brokers (about 1,800 user identities), faced a time-consuming, manual identity-management burden across a heterogeneous environment that included multiple SAP systems. Users juggled numerous passwords and the IT team needed a simple, integrated solution to automate provisioning, enforce policies and secure external access.

The company implemented NetIQ Identity Manager and NetIQ Access Manager with help from Paragon, creating a central directory, SAP connectors, single sign-on and password self-service with immediate deprovisioning. This cut user-management time and costs by 80%, sped provisioning/deprovisioning by about 90%, reduced the number of passwords by 85% and significantly lowered password-related help-desk calls while improving broker access and overall security.

Johnsonville Sausage

Dan Allensworth

Infrastructure Manager, Johnsonville Manager