Apache Syncope is an identity management tool that helps IT administrators to keep track of users’ roles and attributes in an administrative network. The project’s developers summarise their open source software as a tool that helps IT staffers in keeping track on “who has access to what, when, how and why.” Using identity management features, the software provides administrators with the ability to control user attributes, roles and resources. Its main features include approval and request management, identity and role control, domain integration as well as system administration.
A group of independent software developers started Syncope in 2010. The software codebase was donated to the Apache Software Foundation in early 2012 and soon became Apache Syncope. The project is currently undergoing evaluation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The assessment is performed on all new projects in order to assure that their infrastructures, communications and decision-making processes are stabilised in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects.
Apache Syncope is currently developed by two organisations, ASF and Tirasa, the latter is a company founded by the project’s creators. The developers said that Tirasa has reserved approximately 30 000 EUR for 2012. This budget will serve further developments to Apache Syncope in this year.
Apache Syncope is developed in Java technology. The software project is distributed using the Apache License 2.0.
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