OREANDA-NEWS. August 29, 2011. Fujitsu Limited today announced the immediate availability of UniflDone, a package for the integrated management of user IDs across multiple systems scattered through an academic environment.

This system integrates the management of user IDs, passwords, names, affiliations, and addresses across the various systems used in an academic setting, including personnel and student-life systems, library-information systems, and continuing education coursework systems. Universities have unusual requirements for ID management, as they have numerous user categories and affiliations, including full-time students, continuing education students, library users, instructors, graduates, and parents. This system gives universities a single system where user information can be recorded and updated, and allows them to manage settings such as e-mail environments and printing restrictions on either an individual or group basis.

This saves on the trouble of manually setting up, changing, and deleting IDs on each system, making ID management more efficient and cutting operating costs by approximately 70%.

In addition, with optional ID Lifecycle Management, the system can assign appropriate access permissions to each system automatically based on a student's enrollment status (active, on leave, graduated), and Lifetime ID Management can provide integrated management outside of a person's university years to cover their time at affiliated institutions (grammar schools, middle schools, high schools) as well as their time after graduation.

In line with recent expansion of university services to more and more categories of users, including full-time students, continuing education students, library users, instructors, graduates, and parents, the number of systems is also growing. In addition, with the roles and affiliations that apply to users changing over time—students advancing from undergraduate to graduate schools, and then possibly becoming a member of the faculty, for example—universities have some unusual requirements that make manual ID management an increasingly serious burden.

Fujitsu offers UniflDone with these conditions and requirements in mind, to provide academic institutions with an integrated ID management package that capitalizes on Fujitsu's experience and know-how in building data systems for universities.