CDN's 2009 Channel Elite Awards Winners
Best Enterprise Solution HumanIT triumphs in Best Enterprise category Enterprise solution bridged the gap between rival vendors By Paolo Del Nibletto
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This year’s gold winner made it possible for a very large school board to integrate an Apple platform for its academic curriculum. This project went beyond enterprise expectations as it would literally impact thousands of students. The Channel Elite Award Gold winner in Best Enterprise Solution is Montreal-based HumanIT Inc., a specialist in identity access management, data, content and systems management. The company is celebrating its 15th year in business and its president, Stephan Pinheiro, told CDN he was thankful for the recognition the Channel Elite Awards program provides solution providers such as himself. The solution HumanIT created allows for an automated integration of users in the school board’s Active Directory infrastructure which would be managed by a central point under the administration’s user polices. The school board network never used a Mac platform before so this added to the challenge. But this pioneering approach benefited the IT department because now it can deliver more services to students and support all the Mac OSs from a centralized management area. HumanIT enabled the administration council to meet their objectives by integrating the Apple platform in their academic curriculum, optimizing access and security while conforming to IT regulatory standards. HumanIT developed and implemented an integration (single sign-on) and management solution under Microsoft Active Directory (300,000 users; one of the largest active directory networks in America) and Mac OS X (20,000 users) without using Apple servers or any third party solutions. The solution allows for an automated integration of Apple users in the institution’s Active Directory infrastructure and to manage them from a central point according to established management and administration user policies. The deployment and configuration of workstations are accomplished automatically using a single image master (DVD) model. The customer’s IT department was able to offer services and support to all Mac OS X users from a single centralized management point, while maintaining and exploiting the infrastructure and resources already in place in a secure manner. It also conformed to the management and security policies without adding physical or technical resources, Pinheiro said. This project overcame many technological hurdles for the benefit of a media-rich curriculum for students because it helped to bridge the gap between rival vendors. |
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