Entries from Talking Identity tagged with 'Oracle Identity Management'
Talking Identity Services at OpenWorld
I was hoping to find some time to dig a little deeper into some of the themes, conversations and ideas that were floating around the halls at DIDW last week. Unfortunately, time was not a luxury I had this week....
Whoa! Talk about trying to spread FUD
A colleague of mine forwarded me this Sun blog post by Paul Walker commenting on the rise of Oracle IAM to leadership status. I read it with some amusement, as I remembered my days at Thor when I, a hard-working...
Where Social Networking meets Enterprise Applications
You may have heard the term Enterprise 2.0 thrown around a lot recently. The term (allegedly) refers to the idea of bringing all the concepts (and associated hype) seen in the booming social networking arena to bear on how Enterprises...
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...
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...
OAS4OS Ships Today. Unix Admins Rejoice!
Intrigued? The guys over in our Directory Services group (part of Oracle Identity Management) have just come out with a new offering which has a doozy of an acronym, even by Oracle standards. OAS4OS stands for Oracle Authentication Services for...
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...
The Forrester Wave on IAM: Oracle a Clear Leader
It's always a good thing when your work get recognized. Forrester Research has just published a new Forrester Wave ™ Report focused on Identity and Access Management products. In this report, Oracle emerges as a clear market leader with a...
The Latest Wave of IdM Acquisitions
It's been a while since I blogged. Not that there aren't a wealth of topics to talk about, but because work here at Oracle has been keeping me so busy. The time right around a major product release (see my...
Announcing Oracle Identity Manager 9.1
The latest release of Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle's best-in-class user provisioning and administration solution, has finally hit the shelves (so to speak). Release 9.1 has been eagerly anticipated for a while now, and brings with it a host of new...
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 problem with Identity Services
This is an interesting time for me at Oracle. One of the reasons why I haven't been active on this blog for a while is that I have been immersed in discussions about fusion architecture and how identity services fits...
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...
Redefining the enterprise security perimeter
Yesterday I got to speak at an interesting conference hosted by the Jericho Forum. I talked about them in a post last week, but after spending some time with executives of the group and listening to them speak at the...
Oracle acquires Bridgestream
So the worst kept secret in IAM history is officially out. Oracle yesterday issued a long-awaited press release announcing the acquisition of Bridgestream in the Role Management space. Of course, if you have been anywhere near an internet-connected computer, you'd...
New Ideas in Password Management
In his Network World on Security newsletter this week, Dave Kearns talks about a new kind of password management product that seems to be picking up traction. Lieberman Software's Random Password Manager offers interesting new capabilities in password management similar...
Interesting eWeek article on Identity Proofing
You can read here an interesting interview eWeek ran of Burton Group analyst Mark Diodati on the topic of Identity Proofing - that crucial but often tricky process that verifies that someone is indeed who they are claiming to be....
More on the Bharosa Acquisition
There has been quite a bit of interest in the announcement Oracle made last week regarding the acquisition of Bharosa (some interesting posts can be found here, here and here). Here is an overview of what the acquisition adds to...
Oracle moves into Risk-based Access Management by acquiring Bharosa
So the big identity management news coming out of Redwood Shores today (where I happen to be this week) is the acquisition announcement of Bharosa by Oracle. Bharosa is a global provider of proactive, real-time fraud detection and multifactor online...
Catalyst Conf. Notes: Wrapping Up
Catalyst 2007 has been a good conference for me simply because of the intangibles - Good conversations, stimulating discussions, and loads of fun. Here is a wrap up of a hodge-podge of thoughts from the conference.Identity Services, Where Art Thou?The...
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