Softerra Adaxes is an efficient and flexible Active Directory management solution that facilitates, automates and secures AD management, maintenance and administration. Softerra Adaxes guarantees high-performance user lifecycle management achieved with the help of cross-domain AD management facilities, granularly distributed role-based security, streamline user provisioning, administrative tasks automation, and approval based workflow. Providing the easy-to-use Web Interface, Softerra Adaxes ensures controlled access to AD resources from any web-browser enabling users to modify their own account information, search for users and objects, and perform AD management tasks for which they have sufficient permissions.

Role-Based Security Administration

Role-based security administration is used to organize and efficiently distribute permissions between users. Permissions are combined into separate, easy-adjustable Security Roles that allow users or groups, to which they are assigned, to perform a certain set of tasks. A flexible assignment mechanism makes the distribution of permissions more granular and secure.

For more information, see Security Roles Overview.

Administrative Task Automation

Day-to-day administrative operations become more and more time-consuming as enterprises grow in size. To reduce administrative workload, routine operations can be automated and combined in one task. Additional actions are executed automatically by Business Rules when a specific operation is performed or by Scheduled Tasks on regular intervals. The scope of Business Rule and Scheduled Task efficiency is controlled by flexible conditions and assignments.

For more information, see Business Rule Overview, Scheduled Task Overview.

Streamlined Provisioning and Enterprise Standards Enforcement

In large and complex networks, creating and modifying Active Directory objects involves repetitive entering of the same information and observing of multiple enterprise standards. In order to avoid such excessive and time-consuming actions and to maintain a unified Active Directory environment corresponding to the defined standards, Softerra Adaxes provides Property Patterns. Property Patterns define formatting constraints and auto-generating rules for object properties. With a granular assignment mechanism, different Property Patterns can be made effective for different resources depending on their regional or departmental details.

For more information, see Property Pattern Overview.

Approval-Based Workflow

The execution of some critical operations often requires an approval of responsible persons. Softerra Adaxes allows to define critical operations that are executed only after an approval is granted.

For more information, see Approvals and Requests.

Dynamic Business Units

Softerra Adaxes provides virtual collections, used to organize Active Directory objects in an alternative way without breaking the AD structure. Business Unit members are defined by flexible membership rules that allow to include or exclude objects dynamically, adapting to changes in the Active Directory. Business Units can contain objects from different domains or even forests that enable users to manage such objects collectively overcoming the restrictions of domain or organizational structures.

For more information, see Business Unit Overview.

Customization

Adaxes includes extensive customization capabilities that allow aligning the software with unique business processes and requirements. With the help of Custom Commands, complex and routine tasks specific to your work environment can be performed at a single mouse click. The Web Interface can be configured separately for Administrators, Help Desk operators, and Self-Service. For each role, you can customize forms for object creation and modification, define which activities users can perform, allow users to view only specific Active Directory objects, disable certain features of the Web Interface, customize the Active Directory search and browsing capabilities, etc.

For more information, see Custom Command Overview, Customizing Forms for Object Creation and Editing, Disabling Web Interface Components, Configuring Active Directory Pane.

Active Directory Reporting

The reporting feature provided by Softerra Adaxes allows to facilitate Active Directory analysis and monitoring. The information represented in an understandable format helps to control Active Directory environment efficiently and to present data necessary for informed company management. A comprehensive list of AD reports provided by Softerra Adaxes allows to receive necessary information in minimal time.

Logging

The Service Log allows to monitor all operations performed via Softerra Adaxes. To facilitate browsing and monitoring, logged operations can be filtered to display operations performed by a specific user, performed on a specific object, executed within a specific period of time, etc.

For more information, see Logging.

Load Balancing

Softerra Adaxes allows to install several Adaxes services that share their configuration. This enables Softerra Adaxes to connect users to the nearest available Adaxes service in order to avoid system overburdening, increase the utilization of network segments, and enhance the system liability.

SPML Support

SPML Support provided by Softerra Adaxes allows to integrate Adaxes in SPML-enabled provisioning systems. This enables Adaxes to exchange provisioning data with SPML-compliant identity providers without complex and costly integration.

For more information, see SPML Support Overview.