- The pure identity paradigm - creation, management and deletion of identities without regard to access or entitlements;
- The user access (log-on) paradigm - a smart card and its associated data that a customer uses to log on to a service or services (a traditional view);
- The service paradigm - a system that delivers personalized, role-based, online, on-demand, multimedia (content), presence-based services to users and their devices.
-The User Access Paradigm-
Identity Management in the user "log on" perspective would be an integrated system of business processes, policies and technologies that enable organizations to facilitate and control their users' access to critical online applications and resources — while protecting confidential personal and business information from unauthorized access. It represents a category of interrelated solutions that are employed to administer user authentication, access rights, access restrictions, account profiles, passwords, and other attributes supportive of users' roles/ profiles on one or more applications or systems.
-The Service Paradigm-In the service paradigm perspective, where organizations are evolving their systems to the converged services world, the scope of identity management becomes much larger and its application more critical. The scope of identity management includes all the resources of the company that are used to deliver online services. This includes devices, network equipment, servers, portals, content, applications and products as well as a user's credentials, address books, preferences, entitlements and telephone numbers. See Service Delivery Platform and Directory service.
Today many organizations are facing a major clean-up in their systems to bring identity coherence to their world. This coherence is required in order to deliver unified services to very large numbers of users on demand - cheaply and with security and single customer view facilities.
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