Let’s start with a hypothetical situation: I’m going to hand you an on-premises identity management solution for free. Well, great, but there’s plenty left to do to turn your identity management dream into reality. First, let’s get the solution installed. Most of the on-premises IDM solutions are traditional three-tier applications. Starting with the database tier, you want to make sure that you have robust hardware to provide a scalable and highly available database infrastructure. Your company may already have solid database infrastructure in which case you will simply extend that to deploy some additional instances for the purpose of your identity management solution. The web- and application-tier deployment poses a similar problem. With identity management being a critical piece of your IT infrastructure, you will most likely have dedicated app-tier and web-tier deployment to support this mission-critical piece of software. You now have the product in place. What are.