Organizations are striving to realize business value from identity and access management security solutions by not only addressing short-term requirements, such as costs reduction, integrating mergers and acquisitions, and effectively managing reductions in workforce, but also longer-term goals, such as enabling the organization to implement growth initiatives through new portal projects, and positioning the organization to quickly grow and leap ahead of competitors when global economic and business conditions improve. IBM Tivoli® Identity and Access Assurance can help organizations realize business value through a centralized, automated identity and access management infrastructure that addresses the entire user lifecycle and helps improve service, reduce costs, and support compliance efforts. It also facilitates collaboration through role-based portals, enables the quick roll-out of new services, and provides simplified single sign-on capabilities.