From Netegrity’s Siteminder product overview: (36)

"Due to the complexity of distributed portal environments, portal administrators are challenged to administer disparate users and groups of users across multiple organizations, partner and affiliate sites. DMS establishes the distributed hierarchy portal administrators are in search of to ease administration complexities.

Portal administrators can now establish a super administrator who can delegate administration privileges to distributed organizations and organization administrators. Super administrators can enable, disable, modify and move users anywhere within the portal environment and are also able to create organizations and organization administrators for internal departments or external partners and business affiliates. Organization administrators can be granted full administration permission to enable and disable users, and modify user attributes within the organizations they are responsible for or they can be given more constrained access such as to only modify user attributes for example. It’s left to the discretion of the portal administrator as to what permissions are granted to the organization administrators. Users in all organizations can be given administration permission to modify all or a select set of their user attributes. The particular set of attributes is left to the administrators managing the organization the user belongs to.

DMS also provides event-driven workflow for pre-process and post-process administration and registration events. Shared workflow libraries can be developed and customized to support the workflow functionality required. Libraries can evaluate a pre-process request and govern whether to accept or reject it. If accepted, the request is carried out. If rejected, the request will not be carried out and a pre-process error will be returned. After a DMS request is successfully processed, workflow libraries evaluate the post-process request and take any action as dictated by the business process and return success or fail status to the DMS application."