TridentHE Identity Manager from Aegis Identity represents the education community's first open-standards, enterprise-class identity provisioning software dedicated to addressing the specific needs of higher education. This results in a significant differentiation for TridentHE represented by the following:

• Provisioning
• Password Management
• Self Service
• Workflow

Institutions of higher education are challenged with complying with an ever-growing number of government regulations affecting the integrity of both their student information and their internal data. Meeting these compliance and privacy issues must be done while providing information access in a very complex environment of students, administration, alumni, teachers, and contractors. Concurrently, the higher education IT environment is increasing in complexity with a mix of physical, virtual and cloud environments, further complicating the privacy and access balance.
Identity and access management (IAM) has become a cornerstone of these efforts. Until now, IAM solutions have been costly to license, implement and support, because they are based on proprietary technology, and are not priced for the unique needs of the education market. Today’s IAM solutions come with a high total cost of ownership and lock higher education institutions into a costly and rigid option. The challenge is finding a cost effective IAM solution that is designed for the complexities of the higher education communty.