Entries from Talking Identity tagged with 'Application-Centric IdM'
We'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 the business of building and selling enterprise applications...
Virtual 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 quoted Jackson Shaw, who brought it up as context...
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 overlap for two days in the middle of the...
Digital 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...
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 thought-provoking keynote roughly titled "The...
Oracle 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 even more weight in influencing the consumer...
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 Wednesday, where...
Project 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 sense of the competing standards and...
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 when someone asks...
Defining "Identity as a Service"
What exactly do we mean when we say Identity as a Service? Recent discussions have made me realize that not everyone has the exact same definition of this term, and it can cause a great deal of confusion when discussing...
"Identity" is far from an understood concept
As usual, it has taken a while for me to resurface from my latest conference stint. Not because I overextended myself while in Vegas for Collaborate. That only warrants a few days. No, the real reason is that being offline...
See you at Collaborate 07
Next week I'll be heading to the conference capital of the country - Las Vegas - to attend the Collaborate 07 conference. Collaborate is a unique conference that brings together 3 different user groups in the Oracle community - IOUG,...
Moving Towards the ISF: Announcing the Identity Governance Framework
This week, Oracle took a long awaited first step towards the realization of the Identity Services Framework that I have been talking about. At the Gartner IAM Summit this week, Oracle announced an open initiative, the Identity Governance Framework (IGF),...
Postcards from OpenWorld - II
Thursday, I had a session on Application-Centric Identity Management, describing how it will change the way applications are built. Despite the early hour of the session, a few brave souls did show up, which was quite gratifying. While the session...
Getting caught up on things...
I'm back after a short (much needed) hiatus, and so there are a few things I wanted to catch everyone up on.In my last post, I told you of a webinar that I was going to participate in on the...
Demystifying Application-Centric IdM
I recently had a rather interesting hallway conversation about the new approach to IdM that we are advocating. This was with a senior J2EE architect I work with whose opinion I greatly value. Paraphrasing the question that started the discussion,...
Defining Application-Centric IdM
One of the most common questions I encountered at the Catalyst conference this year was "what is application-centric IdM". The second most common question (did not lose by a lot) was "how does this compete with user-centric identity". It has...
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