identicentric History
Stephen Lombardo founded identicentric in July, 2005 to meet very specific needs in the Identity Management industry. Lombardo was formerly a chief architect, practice director, and consultant to companies like Ingersoll-Rand, GlaxoSmithKline, Chubb & Son, Guy Carpenter, The National Science Foundation, McGraw Hill, Turner Construction and Pfizer, with years of experience working on identity management projects.
Lombardo witnessed first hand the challenges associated with identity management platform integration. He realized that the proliferation of complex architectures, misunderstood technology, and a drastic shortage of qualified subject matter experts often resulted in increased project costs, integration issues, unanticipated support requirements, and a lack of shared service adoption. These factors often reduced or eliminated return on investments for many identity management projects.
Lombardo noticed that the most successful organizations place a consistent focus on application enablement within their identity management initiatives. These organizations developed their infrastructures with the goals of meeting application requirements and maximizing the value of the identity system as a shared service. In short, these organizations were successful because an enablement focused strategy drives adoption, architecture maturity, economies of scale, and a host of other benefits.
Our Approach
identicentric has developed a two phase approach that addresses wide spread integration challenges and helps to maximize organization's return on their identity management investments:
First, identicentric created the industry's first commercial web service identity management integration bus (idBUS), capable of rapid deployment into an organization's environment. This flagship product uses SOA (service oriented architecture) patterns to radically simplify and consolidate common identity functions using a standard web service interface. idBUS does not eliminate or replace existing identity management investments and infrastructure - instead, it provides an integration platform that allows applications to communicate with directory, access management, database, and provisioning tools using a declarative content model and well defined service interface. idBUS eliminates the need to perform application level integration using proprietary libraries, complex APIs, or late binding interfaces.
Next, identicentric developed a team of highly qualified, senior experts on identity management platforms to assist customers with challenging integrations and platform deployments. This identity management team is capable of designing, leading, integrating, and deploying solutions across a wide range of vendor products.
identicentric's unique combination of product development and consulting services has facilitated rapid growth without relying on venture capital or outside investment funding. The organization has grown quickly and has been profitable since its inception.