Enterprise Directory

Businesses today face significant challenges in ensuring that they provide “globally interesting” information to customers, employees, and business partners in a secure and highly available manner.   It is no longer just a good thing to do — it’s a necessity. Whether it’s complying with government regulations, minimizing risk, increasing revenue through federated relationships, or expanding services to external resources, enterprises that use intranets or the Internet to provide services face the challenge of managing identity information for a multitude of users.

While organizations have many types of directories to choose from to support their identity management infrastructures, one type of directory stands alone in the value and importance it plays in conducting business today - the Enterprise Directory. The foundation of the Enterprise Directory - the LDAP directory - simplifies deployment of applications, customer/partner portals, and e-commerce operations. Only with a secure, high performing, highly available, scalable, and easy-to-manage Enterprise Directory can identities be managed effectively in these growing and dynamic environments.

Crescent Enterprise Directory Server Solution provides the unique combination of the industry-leading directory server with the value-added services required to deliver a high value and proven Enterprise Directory that can support the increasingly important demands of the enterprise and service provider environments.  Enterprise Directory serves as the backbone to an enterprise identity infrastructure, enabling today’s mission critical enterprise applications as well as large scale extranet applications to access consistent, accurate, and reliable identity data for significant operational and cost efficiencies.

This solution provides a solid foundation for identity management by providing a central repository for storing and managing identity profiles, access privileges, and application and network resource information. It integrates smoothly into multiplatform environments, and provides secure, On-Demand password synchronization with Microsoft Windows Active Directory.  It also helps reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies by consolidating user information and centralizing security processes.

Solution Hightlights
Providing industry-leading directory capabilities, The Crescent Enterprise Directory Solution delivers highly available, scalable, manageable, and secure services that:

• Enhance security
• Lower costs
• Provide investment protection
• Reduce IT complexity
• Improve manageability

This solution includes a number of new features and capabilities for consistent, accurate, and reliable access to identity data:

• Multi-master replication enables always on, highly available directory services.
• The industry’s only commercial, 64-bit, enterprise-class directory server allows access to maximum memory capacity and delivers high performance.
• Linear scalability up to 12 CPUs enables large system usage and cost-efficiencies.
• Proxy services prevent unauthorized access and enable failover operations.
• Integration with Microsoft Active Directory simplifies secure, On-Demand 1 password synchronization.
• An intuitive, Web-based interface manages users, groups, and organizational units.
• Directory Server Resource Kit provides quick retrieval, referral, and viewing of identity information across the enterprise with an out-of-the-box white pages application.