Managers from two multinational companies share their tips on
connecting employees, parts suppliers, other business partners, and
outsourced software developers.
In the field of identity management, it's called federation, where lots
of different, geographically dispersed user-authorization systems are
harnessed to work together. Federated identity management frequently
leads to single user sign-on to corporate systems, which yields access
to all needed applications and databases without repeated logging in.
After several attempts, it's still hard to get
distributed identity management systems to work together as one
enterprise-wide system, but that remainsGM (NYSE: GM)'s goal, said James Heaton, global director of identity management at GM.
