You can meet the challenges of delivering cloud services successfully and profitably, if you have the right identity management capabilities. This paper outlines the five infrastructure essentials for successfully delivering cloud services to a rapidly growing customer base. You'll learn how these essentials can benefit both you, the cloud services provider, and your customer, the cloud services consumer – to your ultimate economic benefit. Plus, we'll outline why traditional identity management infrastructures fall short, and how a new approach is the key to building the essentials into your business.