Kyle Watson President/CEO Watson SCS, Inc.

In a world of increasing legislation surrounding information security, including HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, companies across all industries have found themselves scrambling to comply with complex Identity Management criteria. Until now, it has been neither easy nor economical to implement an effective Identity Management solution. After years of research and development, Watson SCS has created a simple yet effective methodology and solution, called Identity Management On Demand. Identity Management On Demand can both optimize and secure user ID administration processes and provide significant return on investment, all while satisfying both auditors and end users.

Watson SCS, Inc. is an IBM business partner, and works closely with IBM on product and service development and implementation. Identity Management On Demand is based on IBM’s Tivoli Identity Manager Express product, and all hardware and software are installed and maintained in an IBM Hosting facility. The service delivers password management and self-service reset for end users, centralized user ID administration and permissions control. Logic and automation facilitate standardization and prevent errors in the administration process. Identity Management On Demand clients receive custom audit reports detailing who has access to what, and who approved that access. These are all key benefits to a company’s bottom line and result in a quick, realized return on investment.

The Watson SCS solution is unique because it is managed remotely, eliminating the need for the serviced company to hire its own team to manage the solution. Attracting and retaining qualified individuals to implement and maintain an Identity Management program is a difficult, expensive and daunting task, as anyone in the IT world will readily acknowledge. Additionally, the day to day administration of any Identity Management solution is time consuming and often tedious. Companies that can not stay up to date quickly find that their “solution” is not a solution at all, but instead yet another wasted investment that is not living up to its billing.
According to Kyle Watson, founder of Watson SCS and architect of the methodology, “customers are frequently looking to solve their Identity Management problems with a simple software solution. What they don’t realize is that software is only the beginning of the solution. Daily maintenance is required to sustain compliance, and highly qualified – and expensive – technology personnel are necessary to keep up the solution. With Identity Management On Demand, implementation of a simple Identity Management program can be executed in twelve weeks – about half as long as the quickest deployment of a customized solution. Watson SCS then takes on the risk of success as well as the trying task of retaining technical personnel by managing information remotely at a secure IBM hosting facility, all with significantly lower up-front and long-term costs than a typical customized Identity Management solution.”

Watson SCS is an IBM Business Partner focused on Security. Identity Management On Demand provides clients with immediate and affordable access to Security Experts, reducing both long-term cost and risk.