1. core services like email, auditing, reporting, alerting, scheduling, task automation, workflow, help desk ticketing, live updating with rollback, and internationalization. 

2. target platforms like enterprise applications, directory services, network operating systems, Unix, legacy systems, RSA, smart cards, databases, and signal sign-on solutions.

3. client access methods like web, telephony, voice authentication, RSA, command-line, software development kit, Microsoft Identity Information Server (MIIS) or any other metadirectory.

AIM is the world's first and only 100% internationalized web-service based Identity Management framework and development platform.  AIMS™ unique design allows our solution to be deployed faster and provide higher reliability than any solution on the market.  AIMS™ is backed by over a million users who are currently:

• saving money
• reducing threats
• meeting compliance
• simplifying administration
• improving productivity
• gaining interoperability

Supported Platforms
Click here to see a list of supported platforms that ship our the solution.  Our solution is designed to support any platform in a matter of days.  The AIMS Software Development Kit (SDK) is available to customers and systems integrators who require integration with in-house applications and systems. 

Supported Languages
English is the default language.  Organizations may choose to purchase the European Language Pack which supports French, Spanish, German.  Optionally, Avatier also sells a Far East Language Pack which includes Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), and Japanese.  All products automatically detect browser language settings and convert to the desired language.  Contact Avatier if your organization requires support for languages additional languages.

AIMS supports sending end user emails and alerts in their native language.  Password Station supports Multilanguage identity enrollment.  Administrators have additional control to specify which language should be used for the configuration web pages, help desk ticketing, and even the audit log.  All default English templates have been converted to each of the other supported languages.  Finally, Avatier recognizes that some organizations may have administrators spread out around the world, in this case, each administrator has language specific emails and alerts.

Identity Management Design Differences
Avatier's solutions are deployed faster and more reliable than other solutions for the following reasons:

• AIMS was NOT built on multi-generation code standards that were stitched together over the last 7-10 years.  It was designed from the very beginning using the latest managed code technologies which prevents memory leaks, program crashes, and facilitates Far East Internationalization.
   
• AIMS does NOT require deploying and managing over 100MB of IBM's WebSphere or Sun's J2EE or Enterprise Java Beans.   Instead our Chief Architect choose all of  best web service standards found in these bloated development environments to deliver our extremely efficient and secure 200K web service components.  Less code, less management, equals faster deployment, easier to secure with a lower cost of ownership.
   
• AIMS was designed to be installed rapidly without requiring our customers to learn a proprietary script language to integrate with additional platforms.  AIMS™ connects to other platforms through native API calls or standard web service components.
   
• AIMS does NOT require running scheduled processes on a nightly basis that attempt to build a massive cross-platform login ID inventory database.  This process and database is prone to errors as accounts are renamed, requires a manual verification to confirm critical IDS are not cross-linked with incorrect less privileged IDs, and finally is constrained by time if you are a 24x7 operation.  However, for those organizations that have a meta directory in place AIMS can leverage that data to provide automatic login ID linking.
   
• AIMS does NOT deploy any login ID link self-registering.  End users should not have to perform additional task for organizations to reap all the benefits of an Identity Management solution.
   
• AIMS administrators are responsible for identity mapping by simply editing a CSV text file using Microsoft Excel.  The AIMS server automatically converts the CSV text file to Microsoft Access.  Optionally customers can specify Microsoft SQL Server instead of Microsoft Access to be used as the login ID linking repository.  When login IDs match no administration is required.
   
• Avatier's Password Station™ is the only solution on the market that honors password history WITHOUT storing all current and all prior passwords in a symmetrically encrypted database.
   
• AIMS limits database use for auditing only allowing for greater availability and the World's simplest and fastest Identity Management deployment.

Standards and Protocols

• Client Communications
  Communication from client browser to AIMS server is secured through X.509 certificate server and HTTPS.
   

• Server Communications
  Communication from AIMS server to any LDAP server is secured through LDAP over SSL.  While communication to Microsoft Windows NT is secured through CHAP (Challenge/Response).
   

• Encrypted Answers
  Answers to employees’ private security questions are one-way hashed using SHA1 and is saved to any LDAP server, Microsoft Windows NT SAM or and Active Directory without extending the schema.
   

• Secure LDAP Connections
  Communication to LDAP directories is secured through LDAPS (LDAP over SSL).  Any LDAP port can be specified.
   

• Secure Web Service Communications
  Communication to Unix, Mini, or Mainframe systems is secured through SOAPS (SOAP over SSL), an asymmetrical encryption key, optional shared key, and IP address filtering.
   

• Secure Identity Answer Repository
  Password Station leverages any LDAP directory, Microsoft's Active Directory repository or Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0 SAM without expanding the schema to store employee encrypted private identity answers.  This architecture virtually eliminates the need for a database of login IDs.

AIM Architecture Foundation


 

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Multilingual Support
Here are a few of our most popular supported languages.

		English
		French
		German
		Russian (available Q1 2005)
		Spanish (European & S. American)
		Japanese
		Chinese (Simplified & Traditional)

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