Case Study: First Solar achieves accelerated digital transformation and 67% faster provisioning with Saviynt

Saviynt created a holistic identity lifecycle management program to accelerate First Solar’s digital transformation

First Solar, a global leader in sustainable energy and solar panel production managing 7,500 employee identities and about 11,000 total identities across 70 locations, faced limited visibility and cumbersome manual processes across a hybrid IT landscape that hindered cloud adoption and efficient access governance. To address the need for universal role rules, better governance and documentation of user behavior across legacy and cloud apps, First Solar engaged Saviynt and its Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) and Application Risk and Governance (ARG) solutions.

Saviynt implemented a holistic identity lifecycle management program and centralized governance, delivering a consolidated system of record, peer- and usage-based analytics, role-mining and a single dashboard to target 25 apps in 18 months. The Saviynt deployment replaced SAP provisioning in five months, reduced birthright provisioning time by 67% (from six days to under 48 hours), streamlined onboarding and application administration, and modernized security, audit and compliance tooling to reduce cost and tool sprawl.

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