Oxfam

Michael Duggan: Oxfam was founded in 1942 as the Oxford Famine Relief Organization. Our mission is to solve world poverty and to address injustice and human rights where they may arise.

Michael Duggan: Oxfam is a confederation of 20 members. We have over 8,500 employees and 72,000 volunteers spread across 92 countries. And it was necessary to identify a solution that could tie all of our employees, our colleagues, volunteers, consultants together. As part of this, we've started to deliver global IT shared services called, Oxfam International. Delivering a stack of solutions such as, Box to do file sharing. Workplace to enable collaboration and Compass, which is our global internet. 

Michael Duggan: A critical enabler of that is identity. In our sector, we handle very, very sensitive information for our program participants. It's really, really vital for us to understand the identity of people that are accessing our information. In a world where 90% of all security threats are actually, internal and tend to come from employees or those that have been given access to our systems. We need to have a very strong identity management solution that we understand who's accessing what, when and how.

Grant Picard: The challenge for us was how could get people connecting with a single user name and a single password? But be able to onboard them easily. And also to de-provision their account when they left the organization.

Grant Picard: The requirement for us was something that would allow us to easily connect 17 independent directories to a central identity management source and it needed to work with our current active directory environment and out-processes. There are a small handful of products that