The Simple Things Seldom Are
It’s amazing how often we (and by “we” I mean those of us who deal with the high flying world of identity management) get brought back to earth by the reality of everyday life. Usually, this happens...
View ArticleProject Concordia Has Its Work Cut Out For It
I attended the Project Concordia workshop yesterday, ahead of the Catalyst conference. I mentioned the project in a blog post last week; it has the worthy goal of trying to initiate efforts that make...
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Catalyst Conf. Notes: Burton takes “Control”
After a day and a half, I can safely say that Catalyst is living up to its reputation of being on the cutting edge of identity trends and issues. After a typically boisterous start to the conference on...
View ArticleOracle in Gartner’s Leaders Quadrant for User Provisioning
A lot of people wait with bated breath for Gartner’s Magic Quadrant reports on various technologies to come out. And in a relatively new and evolving space like user provisioning, the report carries...
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Digital ID World kicks off with the cry: Free Identity!
You know you are at a good conference any time your keynote address throws up a picture of Neo (from The Matrix) on the screen. That’s exactly what Doc Searls did during a typically humorous and...
View ArticleDigital ID World recap: Identity Services is Next
It took me a while to recover from last weeks Digital ID World conference. And it wasn’t just because of the mad scramble I went through at the last minute to update all my slides for my talk. That was...
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OpenWorld 2007: Virtualization, Fusion and Social Applications
I’m writing this on a flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles, because an unfortunate scheduling conflict means that this year, Oracle OpenWorld and the Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit...
View ArticleVirtual Directories + Provisioning = No more Metadirectory
There has been an interesting discussion going on regarding the fate of metadirectory technology. Dave Kearns talked about it in his newsletter recently (see: Is the metadirectory dead). In it, he...
View ArticleWe’re Listening, Pamela. We’re Listening
The ever thought-provoking Pamela Dingle has issued a challenge to Enterprise Application vendors. In it, she puts forth the idea that technology and market demand has reached the point where those in...
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Upcoming Webcast on Service-Oriented Security
You’ve seen me blog a whole lot about Service-Oriented Security over the years; now you can also hear me talk about it. I’ll be doing a live webcast on “Service-Oriented Security: Blazing a New Trail...
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