Gen-i to deploy cloud-based access management for NZ Ministry of Education

Gen-i will build and deploy the New Zealand Ministry of Education’s cloud-based identity and access management service, as part of a five-year contract announced by the company today.

The new contract, to be delivered in partnership with Infosys and Hyro, will provide secure access to potentially 32,000 users of applications or services at the Ministry, the Tertiary Education Commission and NZ Qualifications Authority.

“We have a strong track record with the education sector in New Zealand and our team worked very closely with the Ministry of Education to understand their unique challenges and deliver an identity and access management solution that was cost-effective and robust. Crucially, our proposal was scalable - meaning that it can address the future needs of the education system as it changes,” said Murray Young, Gen-i’s General Manager for Professional Services.

The identity and access management service will be delivered as software-as-a-service and will be hosted in Gen-i’s data centres using the company’s ReadyCloud service.

Infosys will be managing the deployment and ongoing management within the ReadyCloud infrastructure, while Melbourne-based digital agency Hyro will be providing its Idaptive identity management software.

Anthony Poiner, CEO for Hyro, said its Idaptive software is “currently used by the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to manage the identities of over 1.5 million parents, teachers and students”.

Leanne Gibson, CIO at the Ministry of Education, said: “We were impressed with the use of this service by the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and immediately saw the potential for deploying this solution for New Zealand education providers.”

The first application to be delivered by July this year and the full identity access and management service is expected to be deployed by 30 November 2012.