SWCC Showa Holdings is an umbrella group of Japanese businesses handling development, manufacture and sales of electrical cables and wires, coils, electrical systems, communications systems and related devices. The company works under the slogan “Creating for the Future.”
Business Sitution
As it strove to share managerial resources across its group companies, SWCC Showa Holdings began to emphasize an IT approach that required a strong identity management system.
The NetIQ Difference
The company used NetIQ Identity Manager to achieve a workload reduction and data sharing across
applications. They can now transition employees in two days instead of a month.
SWCC Showa Holdings Streamlines IT with NetIQ Identity Manager
1. SUCCESS STORY
SWCC Showa Holdings Streamlines
IT with NetIQ Identity Manager
Executive Summary
INDUSTRY DESCRIPTION
SWCC Showa Holdings is an umbrella
group of Japanese businesses handling
development, manufacture and sales
of electrical cables and wires, coils,
electrical systems, communications
systems and related devices. The
company works under the slogan
“Creating for the Future.”
BUSINESS SITUATION
As it strove to share managerial
resources across its group companies,
SWCC Showa Holdings began to SWCC Showa Holdings (SWCC) was The NetIQ Solution
emphasize an IT approach that required originally founded in 1936 under the
a strong identity management system. name SHOWA ELECTRIC WIRE AND After becoming a holding company,
THE NETIQ DIFFERENCE CABLE. In 2006, it reorganized into SWCC experienced an increase in
The company used NetIQ® Identity a holding company focused on the personnel exchange, with the company
Manager to achieve a workload electrical and communication industries. transferring or assigning employees
reduction and data sharing across across different departments. “All of
applications. They can now transition As a holding company, SWCC shares this movement was difficult to link
employees in two days instead of a resources across all group companies to smoothly with user access rights,” Mimura
month. boost earnings. The company wanted to said, “and we needed a system that
adopt an IT approach that could collect could solve that problem.” The identity
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
and unify communications and data management system also had to integrate
NetIQ® Identity Manager
in a sharable format. “To achieve this,” with the user authentication and access
said corporate planning department restrictions that SWCC had just instituted
head Noriyuki Mimura, “one major with Microsoft Active Directory.
issue that needed to be addressed
was the introduction of new identity Axio, an SWCC company, suggested
and access management systems. NetIQ® Identity Manager as a solution.
Axio had worked with four different
“We began by reworking the foundational identity management products
network equipment that connects all of internally, and had chosen NetIQ Identity
our operational sites across the world,” Manager because of its flexibility
Mimura said. “With any network upgrade, and expandability. The company
security naturally becomes an important proposed the system to SWCC based
issue. As a result, identity management on its experience and belief that NetIQ
was a major concern of ours.” Identity Manager could be flexible
enough to handle SWCC’s demands.