Case Study: Large Automotive Supplier achieves automated role-based access and faster onboarding with NetIQ Identity Manager

Large Automotive Supplier - Customer Case Study

A large, global automotive supplier with multi-billion-dollar revenues and hundreds of thousands of employees faced an unsustainable identity-management problem after a series of acquisitions expanded both the number of IT systems and users. Manual provisioning and deprovisioning across diverse systems (including SAP, IBM Notes and Active Directory) made it difficult to enforce role-based access, protect intellectual property and promptly remove access for departing staff.

The company deployed NetIQ Identity Manager, centralized its HR system, and reconciled identities across key platforms to enable role-based provisioning for hundreds of thousands of accounts. The solution automated and accelerated onboarding and offboarding, delivered a clearer view of access rights, reduced IP risk, freed IT from manual administration, cut license waste, and set the stage for single sign-on and self-service password management.