Case Study
Large Australian retailer
Workforce access reviews collapsed across 5 Microsoft Entra IDs and 8 Active Directory forests into a single unified review cycle.
A large Australian retailer uses Apporetum to run application-owner and line-manager access reviews across 5 Microsoft Entra IDs and 8 Active Directory forests in a single unified view. One review per person, not thirteen.
Headline metric
5 Entra IDs + 8 AD Forests
Microsoft Entra IDs and Active Directory forests reviewed in one cycle
Scale and shape
- 5Microsoft Entra IDs
- 8Active Directory forests
- WorkforceApplication owner and line manager reviews
- SovereignDeployed inside the retailer's own Australian Azure tenant
The challenge
What was driving the engagement
The retailer's identity estate was fragmented across 5 separate Microsoft Entra IDs and 8 Active Directory forests, a legacy of brand structure, acquisitions and parallel IT histories.
Without a unifying surface, access reviews had to run independently in thirteen separate directories.
Application owners and line managers were being asked to review the same person multiple times, often without knowing which Entra ID or forest they were looking at.
Manual reconciliation in spreadsheets produced brittle audit evidence and missed certifications.
What Apporetum did
Australian-built, cloud-native on Microsoft Entra, deployed inside the customer's own Australian Azure tenant
Apporetum was deployed into the retailer's own Australian Azure tenant. Australian-built, cloud-native on Microsoft Entra, with no per-user licensing.
Workforce identities were correlated across all 5 Microsoft Entra IDs and all 8 Active Directory forests into a single unified record per person.
Application owners and line managers were given one consolidated review experience. They see the whole person across the whole estate, not one directory at a time.
Reviews now run as a single cycle producing a single evidence pack for audit, instead of thirteen parallel exercises.
The result
What the customer can now show, prove and defend
5 Entra IDs + 8 AD forests
certified in a single unified review cycle
One review per person
for application owners and line managers, across the full estate
Consolidated evidence
one audit pack covering cloud and on-premises directories
Sovereign
deployed inside the retailer's own Australian Azure tenant
Australian-built, sovereign, fast to value
Apporetum is built specifically for Australian organisations who need Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) on Microsoft Entra without shipping identity data offshore, without per-user licensing, and without waiting quarters for value.
Deployed in the customer's own Australian Azure tenant
Identity data stays inside the customer's sovereign boundary.
Value from deployment, in weeks not quarters
Insight mode from day one, deterministic governance shortly after.
Fixed monthly cost, no per-user licensing
Cost stays predictable as the identity estate grows.
Cloud-native on Microsoft Entra, not parallel to it
Apporetum extends Entra ID and Entra External ID rather than replacing them.
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