Talking Identity

We're Number 1! We're Number 1!

By Nishant Kaushik on August 22, 2008 2:40 PM

UPDATE (August 27, 2008): I have updated the blog post to avoid violating certain copyright issues with Gartner Gartner has released their latest Magic Quadrant on User Provisioning. It's good to see that we have built on our previous success...

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Whoa! Talk about trying to spread FUD

By Nishant Kaushik on August 4, 2008 5:36 PM

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...

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The Latest Wave of IdM Acquisitions

By Nishant Kaushik on March 13, 2008 7:24 PM

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...

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Announcing Oracle Identity Manager 9.1

By Nishant Kaushik on February 1, 2008 11:45 AM

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...

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Oracle in Gartner's Leaders Quadrant for User Provisioning

By Nishant Kaushik on September 18, 2007 1:19 PM

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...

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The Simple Things Seldom Are

By Nishant Kaushik on June 21, 2007 6:07 PM

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...

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Update: Generic Technology Connector Links

By Nishant Kaushik on June 14, 2007 1:09 PM

Jason Sears posted a comment regarding the lack of information about the Generic Technology Connector I discussed in a previous post. Since this is a fairly new feature of the product, the public information available is somewhat limited. Below are...

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Understanding OIM's Generic Technology Connector

By Nishant Kaushik on June 5, 2007 4:52 PM

Anyone that has implemented any kind of provisioning solution knows that the most difficult part of deploying a solution is creating the connectors -  those components that allow the provisioning system to integrate with the managed target systems. Oracle sells...

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IDC, Silicon Image Demonstrate How SMBs Can Meet Compliance Demands with Oracle Identity Management

By Nishant Kaushik on March 1, 2007 6:14 PM

People always ask if OIM can be deployed in an SMB environment. Given that most of our initial customers were large enterprises that were putting complex deployments in place, it was very hard to provide good references for this question....

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The "Model-As" Problem

By Nishant Kaushik on February 13, 2007 6:51 PM

In my last post, I talked about Jeff Bardin's excellent session about the reality of successfully deploying an enterprise IAM infrastructure. During his session, he touched upon one of the more interesting problems that we see in enterprises today -...

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RSA Conf. Notes: Looking For Practical Approaches to IAM

By Nishant Kaushik on February 12, 2007 2:11 PM

I attended a very informative session entitled "Enterprise IAM Challenges - A Practical Approach to RBAC" given by Jeff Bardin, the CISO at Investors Bank and Trust. It was a frank, open account of his experience leading a team on...

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RSA Conf. Notes: Talking about Account Reconciliation

By Nishant Kaushik on February 9, 2007 2:53 AM

I attended a session titled "Delivering Security Integration with Compliance" by IBM's Stuart McIrvine. During the session, he laid out the various governance frameworks for IdM (SOX, COSO and COBIT among others) and detailed how IBM's Tivoli family of IdM...

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Gartner MQ for User Provisioning published - Oracle Named "Leader"

By Nishant Kaushik on May 11, 2006 9:55 PM

I have been neglecting this blog for a while, and it took an event of historic importance to pull me out of my reverie and back into the blogosphere. No, I am not talking of the arrival on this earth...

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How you can handle your attestation needs

By Nishant Kaushik on April 7, 2006 10:11 AM

Attestation (aka Re-certification aka Periodic Review) is one of the latest must-have's in the world of compliance-driven IdM (if you know of another name it goes by, please share). It essentially refers to the management practice of periodically checking and...

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