Unlike ordinary registry and discovery services which are application specific, ViewDS provides a comprehensive, yet flexible discovery server with no built-in preconceptions about the real-world objects and the properties thereof, that need to be registered and subsequently discovered. The result is a single service that can satisfy the registration and discovery requirements of a large range of applications and purposes across a wide range of industries.
ViewDS includes in one server:
- World leading approximate matching and searching
- Component matching with fine granularity searching
- An integrated Web-based configurable User Interface
- Deep “tree” structures that reflect real organizations
- Powerful extended Access Control capabilities
- Online Organization Charting, Alternate Hierarchies and Selective Reporting
- Unparalleled syntax support (“intelligent storage”)
- High integrity replication across multiple servers
- Offers comprehensive publishing point services to standard LDAP Directories such as Sun DSEE, Novell eDirectory, Oracle Internet Directory, Microsoft Active Directory & ADAM, and IBM Tivoli Directory
- Provides Integrated Synchronization server capability and tight integration with a number of Virtual Directory solutions
- Provides organizations with a fast scalable and flexible identity management infrastructure that is optimized to support very high speed searches on hierarchically structured data.
- ViewDS Directory Server - an XML enabled directory server offering an un-paralleled search capability across corporate identity information
- ViewDS Meta-Directory Server - an LDAP; X.500 and XML enabled Directory server
- ViewDS Access Presence - a Customisable Web based Directory User Agent
- ViewDS Access Sentinel - an XACMLv3 Enabled Policy Based Authorization and Management Server providing a combination of Role (RBAC), Identity (IBAC) and Attribute based (ABAC) Access Control
- ViewDS Identity Bridge - a Bi-directional Synchronisation and Integration solution for passing information to and from ViewDS



