Oracle Identity and Access Management solution for Edith Cowan University

Over the last decade, the purpose of Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems has expanded to meet a range of business objectives. Whereas early identity systems served primarily to simplify account management, cloud and mobile technologies have led to applications outgrowing the traditional network boundaries.

For Edith Cowan University, years of investment into putting common services online to address the needs of its diverse users (such as faculty, students, administrative staff, alumni, applicants, and parents) was pushing the limits of its existing bespoke built Central Authentication System (CAS).

All of these users required access to different resources, but all required a high level of usability, accessibility, security, reliability and availability.

With a growing student population and a commitment to providing its students and stakeholders with a world-class education experience, ECU identified the need to upgrade and migrate its CAS System to a more efficient, secure and scalable IAM system.

After consultation with NRI, there were a number of business requirements and migration challenges uncovered:

• Data migration of over 300,000 legacy students and staff.
• Critical services requiring complex DR & HA architecture.
• Replication of production with all target and source systems for development and test purposes.
• Maintaining core services during implementations.
• Overlap of project releases required extensive planning and coordination of resources.
• Extensive array of stakeholders with limited IAM knowledge required to participate.
• Change management for process and governance.
• Role based access development.
• Emerging requirements for access to services for pre and post contract/enrolment.