Access Fulfillment Express (AFX)

Access Fulfillment Express (AFX) is a new fulfillment solution designed to efficiently and cost- effectively fulfill access changes (such as those stemming from employee on-boarding and off-boarding, employee transfers, and access reviews).   Created to break through the barriers of complexity and cost that have traditionally stymied enterprises' Identity Management initiatives, AFX takes a new, open approach, and promises to reduce the cost, effort, and frustration typically associated with traditional provisioning deployments.

Aveksa's solution is based on an open-source enterprise service bus with a published message format and an open adapter model. Aveksa's AFX also delivers an innovative architecture – cleanly separating business logic from integration logic, enabling the definition and execution of access policies, roles, and workflows from a centralized, business perspective using automation.  This enables the creation of consistent business roles and rules, defining who should have access to what, across all enterprise application and data resources —independent of the mechanics of integration.

 AFX provides enterprises with the following benefits:

• Rapid deployment with an emphasis on configuration rather than custom coding
• Elimination of the typical multi-year software development effort associated with provisioning projects
• Ability to extend access change fulfillment beyond the architectural restrictions of traditional provisioning solutions to external, cloud-based systems
• Ability to provide a single, consistent access provisioning model for changes to both coarse-grained entitlements such as accounts, groups and application roles as well fine-grained entitlements that relate to transactions within applications
• Reduced complexity since the business logic for access management decisions is entirely governance driven
• Reduced cost and effort for executing access changes
• Assurance of enterprise control due to open-source foundation

With AFX, enterprises can connect to existing provision systems (thus leveraging the investments they've made), while significantly reducing future investments required to connect a wider set of enterprise applications.

For more information, see the AFX press release.