Federated Authority Management

A federation is comprised of any number of affiliated and/or independent organizations. StarGarden’s Federated Single Sign-on (SGFS) organizes and manages any number of federations. Federations are completely independent of each other; basically separate worlds but within a federation, member organizations can operate privately or they can 'publish' all or part of their structure to the federation. For example, a company might wish to 'publish' a purchasing position or role to some defined part of the federation.

INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES

These structures within the federation are effectively independent communities that are defined and managed independently by the communities themselves. These communities (e.g. divisions, departments) have positions and roles which can be in unlimited numbers within a single organization or across a federation of organizations. (e.g. The federated authorities are then applied to the hierarchy structures which constitute your organizational delegation of authority policy and these authorities are in turn inherited by incumbent users.) See Federated Identity Management & Provisioning.

Authorities control a wide range of user privileges including workflow routings, approval rights, access to information and services, and domain/network access.
Through powerful inheritance architecture, federated hierarchies automatically inherit delegated authorities based on applied upward, downward or lateral inheritance.

BENEFITS

For example, you may want to:

Maintain company-wide information at the top of the hierarchy and apply downward inheritance so that all communities below inherit the information.
Publish content via our portal and make this available to users in a specific federation role and so apply lateral inheritance.

In complex organizations, this makes StarGarden a vital tool even for simple services such as contact directories and FTE/headcounts, etc.

What is a Federation?

a federation is a collection of communities and users.
a community is a structured (or unstructured) collection of positions and roles such as an organization, a city, a company, a board, etc.
a user is an identity
authority for decisions are delegated throughout the community structure

positions inherit, or are assigned, formal authorities which are automatically inherited by incumbents
authorities can be delegated from the position to other positions.
inherited authorities can be delegable or not
if a position delegates any authorities, the delegating position remains accountable and can follow any actions incurred

a workflow "event" is initiated with a "request" from a user (or an automation)
A user (or automation) can initiate an event "on behalf" of another user
an event arrives at the next step and is visible on the dashboard as a "task"
tasks can have escalation rules with due dates, minimum or maximum

Every decision driving your business is made by people. Your people underpin your applications and your interface to stakeholders including as vendors, customers, contractors and applicants..

StarGarden is streamlines your processes, improves efficiency, and enhances productivity. With a wide range of features and functionalities, our solution is tailored to meet the unique needs of your organization.

Our organization-based workflow solution ensures that workflows adapt reliably to the changes that occur in your business and become a maintenance headache with other WF solutions.