User Access Manager was developed by the software company open4business GmbH, in close collaboration with ZF Friedrichshafen AG, and is customized for the needs of the automobile supplier industry. Because today many automobile companies are controlling their supply chain with enterprise portals, the software solution “User Access Manager” from o4b is successfully in use at ZF Friedrichshafen since 2002.

The User Access Manager is a web-based multi-functional software solution for the administration and evaluation for your employees access to all customer portals The User Access Manager has its own fully integrated user administration data base and can be used immediately, independently of the respective EDP structure in the company. Existing user administrations can be merged here problem-free.
The User Access Manager illustrates clearly all access processes for the customer portals. Because of the roll-based assignment of  rights of access, individual functions and applications will be allocated to the user without a problem.
Apart from an extensive reporting system ,different organisational structures can also be determined in the User Access Manager and any number of hierarchical structures can be developed.
The User Access Manager offers a drastic reduction of the costs in the administration of customer portals by comprehensive automation and standardisation of access and  information processes. The User Access Manager guarantees thereby a high transparency and monitoring of all procedures.

Because of numerous changes such as promotion, dismissals or team changes- , it is not always possible to associate all  identities with  one employee, which creates a general and  overall security risk.

Four hours or even up to 30 days - that is the span that companies need in order to be able to close an unauthorized access according to a study by a market research institute in  Aberdeen  regarding Identity and Access Management in different industries,. Furthermore the results show that only one third of the companies have not closed their inactive accounts. Beyond that some companies have not even defined processes, in order to determine whether accounts have become at all redundant. But „the class-best “and  that are the very successful companies – according to the market study - are characterised by the fact that they are now using a  roll-based identity and access management system