Goals, Objectives and Requirements Analysis
At the beginning of any project, your technical team will need to assess the business goals and objectives to produce a comprehensive set of requirements that can be used to determine the feasibility of the project from a technical standpoint. This process requires a deep understanding of the internal infrastructure of the company, its data and its workflows. Furthermore, any technical assessment will need to be done with a broad awareness of the latest technologies available, to ensure that the best possible approaches are explored. This initial assessment will determine whether is is possible to achieve the goals that have been set out for the project. If the assessment goes well, the project will get a "green" light and the project can be pursued. Alternatively, the team can present recommendations that may result in an adjustment of the goals that have been set for the project.
Symlabs has experts that have worked with a very wide range of LDAP, virtual directory, and identity infrastructure technologies. As contributors to the Liberty Alliance project, Symlabs has actively been involved in developing Identity Federation technologies from the very beginning. As a result, Symlabs as a very deep understanding of all of the technologies involved not only in achieving identity federation, but also in directory and database storage. With this experience, Symlabs can work with you to assess project feasibility and can recommend various approaches to achieving different objectives.
EXPERIENCE AND SUCCESS STORIES
Symlabs has been in the business of working with directory and federation technologies for a long time and has not only assisted on hundreds of projects, but has also contributed to the development of some of these technologies. With this background, it is more than likely that we have already encountered similar problems to the ones which you are looking to resolve.
Currently, one of our directors is involved with the architectural design of the TAS3 project funded by the European Union. Sampo Kellomäki's involvement in the definition of various specifications for the Liberty Alliance project, his extensive knowledge and his passion for new and innovative technologies has allowed him to play a major role in the architectural design of this project. In this project we have been collaborating closely with EIfEL to implement Liberty standards to facilitate identity federation.
Symlabs has also been involved in the architectural design and review process for several federation-related eGovernment projects. For instance, Symlabs collaborated with the New Zealand State Services Commission in architecting and designing their GLS-IVS (Government Logon Service - Identity Verification Service) projects. In this project, the commission emailed Symlabs to say that "... the quality of the work did make a great impression on us... And in this phase of the programme, we would like to keep you engaged in our effort, in the role of subject matter expert."
The Symlabs Professional Services team also provided their expertise working with the Danish eGovernment project, to validate their own OIO-SAML 2.0 toolkit, which is a particularization of the SAML 2.0 specification. The project group opted to test the specification with Symlabs Federated Identity Suite, and Symlabs helped with the design of the validation and integration project.
Symlabs was also involved in the architectural design of the common data model for the global business unit of a major international telecommunications company.