Case Study: CA SiteMinder Provides The Authentication Infrastructure For 400,000 Hitachi, Ltd., Employees

Hitachi, Ltd., is the core company of the Hitachi Group, which has some 940 subsidiaries in Japan and overseas as well as many business divisions, and companies and possesses a vast array of technologies, products and solutions technologies.

Hitachi faced identity management issues from both a user perspective and a management perspective. Users had to have several different identities and passwords while management struggled to ensure the user information was accurate. Hitachi therefore decided to build a shared authentication infrastructure for the whole Hitachi Group.