Identity Cloud

Plan for Identity Cloud

To plan for your organization’s future using the cloud, you need a comprehensive, enterprise-grade identity platform that supports your priorities, such as:

  • Intuitive usability

  • Extensive customizations

  • Detailed configuration options

  • Wide-range of functionality

  • Operational ease

The Identity Cloud checklist highlights the top 10 considerations and best practices for your Identity Cloud strategy.

As you consider implementing Identity Cloud in your organization, the topics in the plan for Identity Cloud section (also referred to as the Adoption Framework Guide) provide guidance to help you effectively integrate the Identity Cloud services into your business environment.

Your transition into Identity Cloud does not have to be a hard transition. It can be a phased approach. For example, you can migrate a key business application into Identity Cloud and then transition other applications later.

There are functional differences between Identity Cloud and self-managed ForgeRock Identity Platform.

If you’re migrating from a self-managed version of ForgeRock Identity Platform to Identity Cloud, refer to the knowledge base article FAQ: Functionality differences when moving to Identity Cloud.

To find out which ForgeRock downloadable components are compatible with Identity Cloud, refer to the knowledge base article What downloadable components are compatible with Identity Cloud?

The framework evolved from the best practices of ForgeRock employees, partners, and customers to help customers adopt Identity Cloud services. Proficiency in deploying, customizing, and administering the Identity Cloud is essential for the successful adoption of the Identity Cloud services. ForgeRock University offers training to architect, build, and deploy your identity solution using the ForgeRock platform.

The topics in the Plan for Identity Cloud section use Software to SaaS (S2S) to refer to the process of migrating customers from a self-managed deployment to Identity Cloud.

Create an implementation team

The successful adoption is dependent on establishing a project implementation team with the following roles or expertise:

  • Project sponsor

  • Project manager

  • Implementation engineers

  • UI developers

  • JavaScript developers

  • Enterprise architect

  • Operations

  • Performance testing

Gather project information

Timely gathering of the following information is essential:

  • Current project plan and important milestones

  • Enterprise architecture diagrams

  • Target system access and authentication methods

  • Directory service information and data model (such as business units, user roles, groups, object hierarchy)

  • Descriptions of existing identity and access management processes, procedures, and logic (such as sequence diagrams)

  • Current and planned technical changes within the timeframe of the project

  • Identity onboarding and offboarding flows

  • Relevant system access and approval groups, as well as associated authority levels

Adoption phases

The adoption of Identity Cloud services is best accomplished using existing products, proven methods, and reusable tools built from global field experience, in the following phases:

ForgeRock Adoption Framework diagram with four phases

  1. Assess and plan:

    • Analyze functional and nonfunctional requirements

    • Review most significant use cases for phase 1

    • Review existing ForgeRock platform configurations for S2S movement

    • Provision tenants and set up project governance

  2. Transform:

    • Define overall architecture

    • Define required data models

    • Define migration path for application data and solution configurations

  3. Adopt and refine:

    • Set up basic administration interfaces

    • Migrate data

    • Migrate configurations leveraging proven migration toolsets (for S2S)

    • Define journeys

    • Integrate applications

  4. Enable:

    • Set up operational and monitoring interfaces

    • Perform functional and performance tests

    • Transition to Identity Cloud in phases

    • Handover to ForgeRock Support and Customer Success organization

Support

Customers can access and manage the resources linked to their support subscription. Customer’s nominated administrators can manage users, access policies, and application integration. Refer to the Getting Started with Support knowledge base article to get started with ForgeRock Support quickly.

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