Smartsheet Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Automating and accelerating the quarterly access review process


About this project

The current quarterly access review process at Smartsheet comes with a myriad of challenges. To start, Smartsheet’s access reviews are time-consuming and draws upon a lot of resources. There is also a large company wide communication effort that goes into place to track changes in employee structure.

Our Identity and Access Management Dashboard presents the Smartsheet Compliance team with:

With our Dashboard, Smartsheet’s Compliance team will be able to save time and resources with the addition of having key actionable insights to employee changes.

Note: Quarterly access reviews are done by a company’s compliance team to ensure that employees have the correct access permissions to applications.


The Dashboard

Data Flow

IAM Flow Diagram

Feature 1: Metrics

Feature 1 Metrics

Based on changes in job title, department, and direct manager on a Quarterly level.

Feature 2: Quarterly Changes Report

Feature 2 Quarterly Changes Report

Displays employees that have had some part of their job related information change, filtered for the last 90 days. Updated daily. Yellow highlighting for changed data attributes. Red highlighting for termed employees (highest risk).

Feature 3: Metrics Timeline

Feature 3 Visualizations

Visualization of change in metrics over the course of the quarter.

Presentation Video

The Team

Sruthi Dikkala
Sruthi Dikkala

Data Analyst

dikkala@uw.edu
Somya Doshi
Somya Doshi

Developer and Data Analyst

somyad@uw.edu
Greyson Fields
Greyson Fields

User Research and Design

gfields5@uw.edu
Nitya Krishna Kumar
Nitya Krishna Kumar

Product Manager

nityak@uw.edu

Project Status

This is a University of Washington Information School Capstone project for Winter/Spring 2021 sponsored by Smartsheet.

By June of 2021, we will have handed over all documentation and code to our Smartsheet.