Identity as a Service Powered by NetIQ
NetIQ provides the Identity as a Service Powered by NetIQ solution for
service providers, consisting of a series of product offerings designed
to provide multi-tenant management and per-tenant usage-based licensing
and audit reporting. The solution allows providers to host NetIQ
products as services for their tenants. The Identity as a Service
Powered by NetIQ solution consists of the following components:
· NetIQ Services Director is the framework for the solution.
· NetIQ Account Management Service manages user accounts.
· NetIQ IdentityAccess Service manages identities and access to
applications whether the applications are hosted in the cloud or are
internal applications.
· NetIQ Privileged Account Manager Service manages
administrative accounts for your UNIX, Linux, and Windows environments.
I’ve never heard of it. I don’t see it on the product list nor on the
lifecycle list. However, I did find reference to it as part of the
Cloud Services Provider Program: https://www.netiq.com/industries/cloud-services-provider/ (you can
find it on that page). I also found this old BrainShare PDF
presentation about it: https://goo.gl/xLwO57 (downloads the PDF).
I was at the BrainShare launch in 2014 and there was certainly a bit of
noise about it back then, and they seem to have kept the product alive
in some capacity (a patch update in the doc last month) but yes no
reference to it anywhere.
Interestingly I had a look at that Cloud services program page before
posting this thread and emailed the contact address and it bounced,
so…
I’ll see if I can find anyone internally that knows about it. I’ll
also have someone look at that email address that bounces. Thanks for
the report on that.
I finally got hold of someone that knows something about the offering.
Here’s what he told me:[color=blue]
we are only launching 3 IAS offerings and trying to get 6 customers to
validate that we can deliver to the target customers. We expect a much
larger rollout in FY18 [starts in June 2017]. So, there is really not
much to tell right now.[/color]