The Fiducia & GAD IT AG is one of the leading IT service providers in Germany as well as an IT Competence Centre and IT service provider in the Cooperative Financial Group.
Fiducia & GAD provides their customers with a comprehensive range of services in the field of information technology. The core competencies of Fiducia & GAD are in computer center operations requiring a high level of security using state-of-the-art mainframe, open system and Unix technologies as well as in designing and implementing integrated IT solutions. Identity and Access management takes a key role to comply with regulatory requirements and operational efficiency of a new common cloud platform. Traditional IAM products and architectures with their monolithic approach usually do not meet the requirements of current IT standards such as container technology and micro service architecture. We provide an insight into the problems, challenges, and dependencies associated with the design of a new Identity Management solution for our private cloud. And give an overview of the developed architecture with regard to the goals set in terms of multi tenancy capability, scalability and availability. Further on, we provide an outlook which additional values, features and challenges can be mastered in an increasing, flexible IAM architecture.