Client:
   BT
     
Problem:
   BT provides their clients with a number of applications within an extranet service to deliver services and manage information about the client company, its employees and business activities across the distributed organisation. These applications required a single, integrated security and access control service to manage users and their rights and permissions across these applications centrally.
     
   
     
Solution:
   BT’s application teams based at BT’s R&D facilities in Martlesham chose the ennovation SAC service to furnish the user and permission management capabilities across the application base. Previous projects had encouraged the BT team that SAC could be deployed far quicker than in house development that was not only cost effective but also provided a model offering differing layers of sophistication in the use of security rights appropriate to the various applications. BT were also able to take advantage of SAC’s extensible permission attribute capabilities to support organisation hierarchies and permission inheritance within their directory application.
     
Products:
   SAC
     
Benefits:
   The SAC solution allowed BT to avoid the delays and overhead of in-house development of these features for each application in their suite. SAC provided a robust service layer that enabled their own applications to rapidly deliver the complex rights management issues inherent across such a large, complex client organisation.