Managing University Identity Management Systems: A Design Science Approach

Abstract

Especially in the university context the configuration of identity management systems, the management of roles and their assignment to users is a highly complex task. To simplify this we propose an automated linking of the identity management system to business process models which contain organizational responsibilities. Based on the E3plus approach [JW08] we introduce a modelling grammar and a method to access electronically stored enterprise models by Web services. The usefulness of our approach was tested within a pilot study conducted at the University of Münster and the universities of Hamburg (Germany).