LADWP Selects AST to Implement Enterprise Identity and Access Management Solutions

NAPERVILLE, Ill. - Aug. 28, 2013 - PRLog -- The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the largest municipal water and power utility in the nation, has selected AST Corporation to implement LADWP’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution using Oracle Identity Management Suite.

LADWP, as part of its Enterprise Information Security Program and for compliance with North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Cyber Security Reliability Standards, is implementing its IAM solution to improve the customer experience for both internal and external users, and to protect business assets, applications and systems.  In addition, the solution will provide automated processes to improve the management of enterprise identities by providing a centralized solution, which will eliminate processes that are manual, making these more manageable, efficient and adherent to compliance regulation.

AST’s IAM expertise, plus strong references and IAM integration experience with major Oracle business applications, played a large role in LADWP selecting AST to provide enterprise level security across various applications within LADWP.

AST Corporation is a Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork.

About Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was established more than 100 years ago to deliver reliable, safe water and electricity to 3.8 million residents and businesses in Los Angeles.  LADWP provides its 666,000 water customers and 1.4 million electric customers with quality service at competitive prices.  As a revenue-producing proprietary department, LADWP transfers a portion of its annual estimated electric revenues to the City of Los Angeles general fund.  LADWP's operations are financed solely by the sale of water and electric services.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

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About AST Corporation

Established in 1995, AST Corporation is a Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Specialized Oracle E-Business Suite systems integrator, an Oracle University training and delivery partner, and a certified Oracle On-Demand implementation provider. AST offers professional consulting services to Oracle Applications users and serves industry-leading organizations in: municipal, state and federal government; public transportation; airport and seaport; K-12 and secondary education; utilities/energy; manufacturing; insurance; retailing; telecommunications. Clients look to AST Corporation for leadership and assistance in business process redesign, project management, systems integration, systems administration and training.

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