What's New in Designer 4.0

Release details are forthcoming...

Click this What's New link to access quick documentation and screenshots of all of these new capabilities and more.

Feature 1

Recent Customer Quotes

“I have been working with Novell's Identity Manager since v1.1, and while the early versions were powerful, they were also very time consuming and difficult to develop solutions with. Now, with IDM v3.5 and Designer, the power of the IDM policy engine is exposed and development simplified and made significantly faster and easier. Designer allows me to accomplish in a day what used to take weeks or months, from basic driver prototyping and development through testing, production deployment, and documentation. ” (September 11, 2007)

David Gersic
Directory Services Engineer
Information Services
Northern Illinois University

“The simulation features in Designer for Identity Manager have helped to greatly reduce our development time. By using the simulator, I can test my rules extensively with many different iterations and be confident that my rules are accurate.” (September 10, 2007)

William C. Schneider
Senior Systems Administrator
Data Center Operations and Services
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

“Designer for Novell's Identity Manager has benefited the adoption of identity based solutions in several ways. It has streamlined the adoption of identity based solutions by simplifying solution customization. It has reduced our cost of designing and deploying Identity Manager by about 30%. It has made it easier for customers to manage and maintain a solution after it has been implemented. And it has made Novell Identity Manager the industry choice of both Novell and non-Novell customers for identity management initiatives. We applaud Novell for evolving Identity Manager in such a way that it has created a win/win situation for both customers and consulting organizations.” (November 9, 2006)

Michael Weaver
Senior Consultant
Concensus Consulting, LLC

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We would love to hear your feedback, ideas, or bug reports on any aspect of Designer. The main Help menu in Designer has direct links to our:

Bugzilla - which lets you submit bugs and ideas, keeps you notified, and lets you vote
Designer Forum - which we continually monitor

We encourage your active participation. We really do consider every piece of feedback and it has great influence on what we do. Our goal is to put as much ease, productivity, and power at your fingertips as possible and to craft the product in a way that really works best for you. At this stage, we feel like we're just getting started!