Entries from Talking Identity tagged with 'Identity Services'
Change We Need
It's been a long time since I have been able to post. A lot conspired to make it difficult for me to keep up with my blogging, not the least of which has been a number of interesting, but under...
Evolving the Identity Services architecture
The last 3 months or so has been really good to my work defining our vision for Identity Services. I've gotten valuable input from my colleagues in the IdM business, and my participation in Project Fusion and Burton's Identity Services...
The fun never stops in Identity World
Boy, it was an exhausting September. There was a lot going on between work, Digital ID World, Oracle OpenWorld and the Burton Identity Services Working Group. Unfortunately, this left me little time to write on this blog. But hopefully all...
Conversations were center at DIDW
My Digital ID World was all about conversations. Much more useful to me than the sessions was the opportunity to brainstorm with some very smart, very committed (some insanely so) people in the identity community. The sessions were good,...
The Frameworks are Coming
I read with great interest Kim Cameron's most recent post about the Beta release of Zermatt, Microsoft's new identity application development framework. It is a step towards the kind of programming framework that I have been talking about and working...
The Optimist is feeling a little pessimistic
Seems like the recent Catalyst conference led the Eternal Optimist, Pam Dingle, to question how we are doing as an industry. It is true that a lot of the messaging has shifted from what enterprises need to accomplish based on...
Is AD really the dominant Identity Store out there?
James McGovern has challenged my position that applications should not be written to go directly against AD. And he got the backing of Jackson Shaw in this argument. James says: If pretty much every Fortune 500 enterprise has Active Directory,...
Getting the Last Word In on Metadirectories
I doubt it. I doubt that there will be a last word on metadirectories for a long time to come. Technology that works has a way of sticking around, even when they have outlived their purpose, and are forced into...
Must-Have Characteristics of an Identity Services Layer
Mark Dixon has just written a post about the critical characteristics an Identity Services layer must have to become part of Enterprise architecture. These characteristics are born from the idea that identity services will become to enterprise applications what dialtone...
Concordia tackles Entitlements and Policy Management
Burton Group's Catalyst Conference is coming up at the end of the month, which means that the work going on in the identity management world kicked up a few notches last month. One of the things that is becoming a...
Talking about the Identity Bus/Hub/Provider
There has been a lot of discussion recently on the topic of an Identity Bus (see the recent newsletters by Dave Kearns from May 5, May 7, May 12 and May 14, and some blog posts by Kim Cameron and...
OpenID and Identity Services
In response to my previous blog post about identity services, I received the following question from Billy:"isn't this what OpenID aims to do? If not, how not?"OpenID can be a small (but key) part of the identity services story. The...
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...
Higgins 1.0 Released
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the 1.0 release of Higgins, the first real software framework that enables developers to integrate user-centric identity technologies and protocols into their applications. It's multi-protocol and platform-agnostic architecture is key in making the process of...
Looking Forward to 2008
This is the time of year when everyone rolls out their start-of-the-year predictions. You can see a couple of those here and here. I especially loved Anshu Sharma's take on this popular beginning-of-the-year routine.Predictions are risky business, especially in the...
User-Centricity in the Enterprise
Recently, a few things have reminded me that we still don't have a clear understanding of how the concept of user-centric identity will fit into the enterprise environments we are so familiar with. But the question keeps coming up, in...
Gartner sums up the CIO debate on identity
It feels good to come to any conference and hear people talk about concepts and trends that validate the direction we are taking. And the Gartner IAM Summit certainly did that. Steps that we are making in the areas of...
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...
The Disconnect between SOA and Identity Services
Here is what I learnt at the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum, where (as I mentioned in my previous post) I was participating in a panel on "Identity: The Ultimate Solution to SOA Security". The SOA community is not very clear...
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