SUSE’s IAM evolution mirrors its corporate journey, beginning with deep dependency on Novell (later MicroFocus) Access Manager, following its transition to independence.As the organization grew, individual departments adopted several tools to solve immediate authentication needs.

This led to a proliferation of unmanageable authentication silos across customer portals, partner networks, and internal employee systems.Recognizing the inefficiencies and risks of this fragmented landscape, SUSE IT has set the goal to consolidate these scattered silos by unifying identities into a single, modern governance solution.

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