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| <title>Apache Syncope</title> |
| <author email="dev@syncope.apache.org">Apache Syncope Documentation Team</author> |
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| <p> |
| <span style="font-weight: bold">Apache Syncope</span> |
| is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, |
| implemented in Java EE technology and released under Apache 2.0 license. |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| Often, <span style="font-weight: bold">Identity Management</span> and |
| <span style="font-weight: bold">Access Management</span> are jointly referred, mainly because their two |
| management worlds likely coexist in the same project or in the same environment.<br/> |
| The two topics are however completely different: each one has its own context, its own rules, its own best |
| practices.<br/> |
| On the other hand, some products provide unorthodox implementations so it is indeed possible to do the same |
| thing with both of them. |
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| <a class="btn btn-large btn-success center-block" style="width: 250px;" href="downloads">I want to build my IAM with<br/>Apache Syncope</a> |
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| <a class="btn btn-large btn-info center-block" style="width: 250px;" href="contributing">I want to contribute to<br/>Apache Syncope</a> |
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| <dl> |
| <dt>Identity Management</dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p>Tools and practices to keep identity data consistent and synchronized across repositories, data formats and |
| models.</p> |
| </dd> |
| <dt>Access Management</dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p>Systems, protocols and technologies supporting user authentication (how Users are let accessing a given |
| system) and authorization (which capabilities each user owns on a given system).</p> |
| </dd> |
| </dl> |
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| <p>From the definitions above, Identity Management and Access Management can be seen as complementary: very often, |
| the data synchronized by the former are then used by the latter to provide its features - e.g. authentication |
| and authorization.</p> |
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