Case Study: Owens Community College achieves 10-minute provisioning and campus single sign-on with NetIQ

Owens Community College - Customer Case Study

Owens Community College, a two-year institution in northern Ohio offering 130 programs and more than 200 online courses, struggled with manual account provisioning for thousands of users each semester and a clumsy VPN client process. The college needed simpler user management, single sign-on for students and faculty, and stronger FERPA-compliant controls.

By implementing NetIQ Identity Manager, Access Manager and SecureLogin with help from Weisberg Consulting, Owens automated provisioning from a Banner-fed workflow and delivered web-based single sign-on to on-premise and cloud apps. Provisioning now takes about 10 minutes instead of 24 hours, the college avoided adding at least two FTEs, simplified administration, and improved security and compliance.

OWENS Community college

Martin Stroud

Deputy CIO