Bespak ensures error-free user management process with ADManager Plus

About Bespak

Bespak is a global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) focused on inhaled and nasal drug delivery devices and drug-device combination products. With a long history in the development and commercial supply of pressurised Metered Dose Inhalers (pMDIs), Bespak supplies a major proportion of the world's pMDI dosing valves and actuators, and also specialises in the industrialisation and high-volume manufacture of complex dry powder inhaler (DPI) devices.

Company

Bespak

Industry

Manufacturing/Supply

Location

United Kingdom

Employees

500+

Business challenges

  • Lack of standardization: Bespak's IT team observed that different users had varying approaches to AD tasks, particularly in user account creation, password resets, and group modifications. This inconsistency led to errors and inefficiencies.
  • Audit and compliance difficulties: The company needed a way to track and audit user activity within AD. Without proper visibility, ensuring compliance and identifying inactive accounts was a challenge.
  • Account cleanup issues: Inactive accounts remained in the system for extended periods due to the lack of an efficient monitoring and deactivation process.

The problem

Bespak's IT team observed that different users had varying approaches to AD tasks, particularly in user account creation, password resets, and group modifications. This inconsistency led to errors and inefficiencies. The company also needed a way to track and audit user activity within AD. Without proper visibility, ensuring compliance and identifying inactive accounts was a challenge. Additionally, inactive accounts remained in the system for extended periods due to the lack of an efficient monitoring and deactivation process.

Before implementing ADManager Plus, Bespak lacked structured workflows for user account management, making it difficult to track changes, enforce policies, and streamline delegation tasks.

"We needed a way to audit what everyone was doing. We found that our users all had different approaches to how we made user accounts. We wanted to create templates to stop mistakes."

Jeff Pattison, IT Administrator , Bespak

The solution

With the implementation of ManageEngine ADManager Plus, Bespak transformed its approach to AD management, achieving a standardized and automated system. User account creation became seamless with predefined templates that eliminated inconsistencies and ensured a structured process. Implying on how ADManager Plus has provided visibility over user actions.

"We now have standardized ways to create user accounts and the way our users interact with AD. Now we know that they're resetting passwords, and group creation is happening in the correct way."

Jeff Pattison, IT Administrator , Bespak

The advanced reporting functionality of ADManager Plus played a crucial role in Bespak's IT operations. Reports were linked to automated tasks that efficiently disabled or deleted inactive user accounts, strengthening security and ensuring compliance. Pattison emphasized the significance of this feature, stating.

"The reporting is very important to us. These reports are then linked to tasks which might delete users or disable accounts."

Jeff Pattison, IT Administrator , Bespak

The support team at ManageEngine provided prompt and effective assistance, ensuring a smooth experience for Bespak.

"Support has been perfect. I have logged tickets and get very timely responses."

Jeff Pattison, IT Administrator , Bespak

The implementation of ADManager Plus also streamlined permission management, allowing IT administrators to assign permissions to apprentices at different stages of their development.

"ADManager Plus is fantastic. I have apprentices starting all the time, and I'm able to set their permissions based on their development stages."

Jeff Pattison, IT Administrator , Bespak

With ADManager Plus, Bespak successfully standardized AD processes, improved auditing and visibility into user activities, automated account cleanup, and simplified delegation. The overall experience with the solution was rated 10/10, and Bespak highly recommends ADManager Plus as a powerful and efficient AD management tool.

About ADManager Plus

ADManager Plus is an identity governance and administration (IGA) solution that simplifies identity management, ensures security, and improves compliance. With ADManager Plus, manage the user life cycle from provisioning to deprovisioning, run access certification campaigns, orchestrate identity management across enterprise applications, and protect data on your enterprise platforms with regular backups. Use over 200 reports to gain valuable insights into identities and their access rights. Improve the efficiency of your IGA operations with workflows, automations, and role-based access control policies. ADManager Plus' Android and iOS applications help with on-the-go AD and Azure AD management. For more information about ADManager Plus, visit https://www.manageengine.com/products/ad-manager/.

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