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rDirectory's unique solution for identity information and management unleashes the potential of Active Directory in your organization. Take just a few minutes to deploy an easy to use, web-based corporate directory and search engine that immediately empowers your employees to safely and securely search the data in Active Directory and edit personal information, while relieving your IT staff of routine maintenance tasks so they can focus on more critical issues.
Use rDirectory to compose custom corporate directory applications in a paint-by-numbers fashion, with no need for programming skills or long development cycles. Deploy rDirectory today and enjoy these benefits;
Leverage your Active Directory investment
For a small fraction of what you already have invested in Active Directory, rDirectory puts a custom face on the directory for the entire organization to directly experience and leverage the power and security of Active Directory.
Empower your employees
Accurate and accessible information in the corporate directory enables employees to efficiently contact, communicate, and collaborate with each other. With rDirectory, users easily find and access current information about people, resources and services; navigate and explore organizational relationships; and publish information and links to resources for others to use and share.
Ensure data integrity
With secure and controllable self-service editing, rDirectory assures the data in your directory is accurate and consistent and easily searchable, increasing the value for everyone in your organization.
Respond rapidly to changing requirements
With rDirectory, you can easily customize your corporate directory applications as your business needs and corporate directory initiatives evolve.
Delegate routine tasks
Delegate tasks such as password resets, group and account management to helpdesk staff without granting administrative rights.
Slash development cost
Use rDirectory's straightforward Designer feature to create internal solutions that reduce the administrative costs of maintaining corporate directory information and multiple databases.
Leverage SharePoint services
Links to rDirectory can be embedded in your SharePoint site. And, rDirectory applications can be launched to search for users and edit users from SharePoint.
How rDirectory Works
Most administrators are familiar with the common schema (classes and attributes) exposed by the Active Directory Users and Computers tool, but are surprised to learn that the standard Active Directory schema defines nearly 400 classes and 2,000 attributes.
rDirectory does not extend the schema or require extensions. It simply discovers the schema you already have and allows you to compose applications that leverage virtually any class, attribute, or relationship your schema defines, including any custom classes or attributes added for your organization's unique needs.
rDirectory Features
Web-Based Corporate Directory and Search Engine
- Search the white pages and yellow pages for people, places and resources using rDirectory's out-of-the-box, self-service search application that can be customized to leverage and publish your Active Directory data.
- Self-service editing enables users to update their personal information. You can control what can be seen and edited.
Account Management
Safely delegate user, user group, and password management to users, help desk staff, or anyone else.
- Group Management features apply to both the help desk and users. Delegate group management to help desk staff so they can add and delete users from groups. Users who are Group Managers can be authorized to add and delete members of their groups.
- Self-subscription to groups is a time-saving feature that allows a user to view a list of all the distribution groups that he/she can join, subscribe to or remove themselves from that group, and receive email notifications of group activity.
- Self-subscription to query based distribution lists enables users to search for employees who match specific criteria and send a query-based email to those users. Employees effectively subscribe or unsubscribe to and from these groups by editing the attributes in their profile that match the query.
- Help Desk features include delegation of password resets to help desk operators or managers (any relationship.) And, when integrated with Namescape's MyPassword, operators can use the MyPasword profile to validate the user's identity. Account management functions such as Unlock, Disable, or Delete allow help desk staff to perform these tasks without granting them administrative rights.
Role-Based Access
rDirectory provides a unique authorization model that increases the flexibility and power of traditional group-based roles.
- Group-based roles are supported for any security group in Active Directory.
- Relationship-based roles are custom expressions you create that leverage existing relationships in delegating tasks to users that typically consume valuable IT and helpdesk time.
- Claim based roles are custom expressions that allow you to utilize the value of a specific attribute to allow access to information. For example, only users whose Account Category attribute is "attorney", can see additional information that pertains only to the company's attorneys in their profile.
Composable Applications
rDirectory includes templates from which you can create any number of custom applications.
- Search Applications provide the most powerful and agile search mechanisms for accessing your Active Directory data. Search the white or yellow pages; search by department, location or skills. rDirectory will find it, create a list and link the results to custom Detail Views that can be viewed, edited and managed based on the roles you configure.
- Detail Applications such as 'My Profile', present expanded information about a specific object. rDirectory can leverage any relationship in the schema, so you can create detailed applications for any object.
- Template-Based Object Creation and Provisioning standardizes how objects are created and provisioned. Templates that define the optional and required fields and editing options can also pre-populate fields so created objects are always initialized consistently and accurately. Accounts can be provisioned with Exchange mailboxes, home folders, groups or any relationship.
Enforced Data Integrity Compliance
With rDirectory, you can confidently delegate tasks while staying in control of your data.
- Compliance controls such as validation expressions, pick lists and object selectors to prevent users from entering data improperly, so no matter how many users in your organization, rDirectory assures the integrity and consistency of your data across the board.
- Enforcement requires a user to complete profile information before accessing rDirectory - a valuable feature in ensuring that user data is complete and accurate.
Provisioning
rDirectory's optional provisioning agents ensure that every user is provisioned consistently.
- User Provisioning allows newly created objects to be assigned the resources, relationships and other data needed all in one step. rDirectory currently supports resource and relationship provisioning.
- Exchange Provisioning allows new user accounts to be provisioned with an Exchange 2003, 2007 or 2010 mailbox when user accounts are created. The mail alias can be auto-generated using a variety of formats from the First and Last name entered.
- Home Folder Provisioning allows new user accounts to be provisioned with Home Folders that are automatically created and secured.
Auditing and Notifications
Stay on top of who changes what and when.
- Email notifications are supported for all edit, create, delete and manage functions.
- Audit logs can assist with compliance for Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) requirements.
Authentication
rDirectory supports these authentication modes:
- Forms allows the operator to log on using their Windows credentials which are then passed through to Active Directory.
- Anonymous for public access such as the internet or a lobby kiosk. rDirectory functions in read-only mode using anonymous access.
- Integrated Windows so users who are already logged on don't need to log on separately to rDirectory.
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