Findings of the research
The major findings can be summarized as follows:
?    61.5% of organizations surveyed have an Identity Management infrastructure in place. An Identity Management infrastructure has been categorized as having implemented at least three components: Directory Services, Authentication and Authorization process.
?    Among the components of IDM, the percentage applications is as follows:
Directory Services         69.2%
Authentication Policy    92.3%
Authorization Policy      73%
Single Sign on                 34.6%
?    Among firms that have deployed Directory Services, the functions of Directory Services being implemented as a percentage of the organizations:
White Pages                                44.44%
IT Provisioning                           66.66%
Employee Comm. / Decomm     61.11%
Desktop & Device Mgmt.           83.33%
Directory enabled N/w / QOS    94.44%
Authorization & Access             66.66%
Database Inf. Aggregation          61.11%
Synchronization of email      ...