With the Sun acquisition complete, we can finally start talking about what this means for various product lines. Thomas Kurian touched on the identity management strategy in the big Wednesday launch event, and I recapped what he said in my previous blog post. Now, the next level of detail has come from Hasan Rizvi, SVP [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Oracle Identity Management’
Today is the day: Oracle + Sun = Exciting Days Ahead
Well, it’s finally here. After months and months of delay, Oracle announced it finalized its acquisition of Sun.
It took so long, I think of lot of people thought this day was just a mirage. And unfortunately, the delay has cost us (in the identity management team) the opportunity to work with some great folks like [...]
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. I am writing this aboard a flight to San Francisco, as I head there to [...]
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 serf in a startup, would rail (in private, as I didn’t have a blog back [...]
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 go about their business.
As seen on Wikipedia:
Enterprise social software, also known as Enterprise 2.0, is [...]
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 our own Clayton Donley). The use of the word “Bus” creates some confusion, since what [...]
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 should (must?) figure out how to externalize authentication. But she also points out what has [...]
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 Operating Systems, software that greatly simplifies the authentication and account management process of Unix and [...]
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 solid
portfolio of integrated products and a “compelling, aggressive strategy” with
application-centric identity.
Forrester gives Oracle credit for “aggressively [...]
