#DID you see the new case study?

Thank you for bearing with the opening title and reading further. If you have ever met me you know I am a sucker for good puns and "dad jokes".

Together with our partners One Identity and Microsoft are proud to announce a new case study. Follow along as we dive into how Avanade is looking to leverage Verifiable Credentials (VC) internally to ensure our Skills management portal has accurate information. We also look to provide a way to leverage a passwordless type login to an external partner portal which we have been calling "Zero-federation".

We are coordinating this case study release with the announcement of the Avanade.com/did site which is dedicated to sharing our point of view and thinking on Decentralized Identity.

Below you will find three things:

• The Public Case Study link
• The new Avanade Decentralized Identity landing page avanade.com/did
• A summary of the user journey and benefits from the case study

Public case study link

Avanade Decentralized Identity

Johnny's Experience:

• Johnny (an Avanade employee) has a digital staff/ employee card which is a VC
• Johnny shares this staff card to login to the external partner training portal passwordlessly
• He then can choose a training he would like to take
• Once completed he will receive a VC certifying he is trained
• Johnny can now take this new VC to the skills portal and present it to the system
• The system now has a valid and certified credential that expresses Johnny is a certified expert in this skill

Benefits:

User experience - Johnny doesn't need to create and manage accounts in mutiple services

Process efficiency - The certificate from the external training provider can be trusted without manual validation, saving time for Avanade

Employee Privacy - Avanade employees share only minimal information with the external training partner, their name is processed but not stored, their email is not required

Reduced Risk - Avanade removes the risk of employees re-using their avanade password in the external service. The training partner reduces their risk of losing employee credentials and damaging reputation with their clients

Zero-federation - The training partner can accept digital employee cards from any company, no need for a federated system key exchanges, or even a business relationship to exist beforehand.