Group Management Made Easy!

IT professionals in today's economy are stretched thin. System improvement projects, ongoing maintenance and new initiatives are time-consuming enough without the added burden of basic group management tasks saddled on. In many organizations a manager or department head will complete a paper security control form or send an email to the IT department to request a change to their group's membership. This process can be delayed if the Administrator is unavailable or can cause organizational inefficiencies if the Admin is pulled off of a mission critical project to handle these mundane requests. Why not delegate these tedious group management tasks to the managers of the groups themselves? This would put group management squarely where it belongs inside the organization, with the actual owners of the groups. IT has been the de facto group management authority not because they're the ones who are most qualified to determine who belongs in which group but because Active Directory does not offer the means to securely allow end-users to organize group memberships and AD attributes. This creates a vacuum that can be filled by a product from Tools4ever called User Management Resource Administrator (UMRA). UMRA can quickly snap in to your company essentially creating a digital representation of your organization's pen & paper processes. UMRA allows you to deploy a web-based group management portal to your managers to securely delegate this functionality. Want extra security? Build a workflow approval process so that a member of the helpdesk has to sign off on all change requests submitted by management prior to having them committed to Active Directory. UMRA is a pliable platform and as such can be customized to deliver these functions to your organization's exact specifications. This robust application will allow you to leverage Active Directory as the powerful group and user management system it should be! Have some questions about how UMRA can help streamline your company's group management processes? Please visit us on the web at www.tools4ever.com or send me an email!