One of the interesting discussions to come out of our CAB meetings (see my last post) was a discussion on how identity management is a whole different ballgame for Small and Medium Businesses. As a start-up, Thor Technologies could only focus on a specific segment of the market rather than trying to satisfy everyone. And
I’m back from a trip to Oracle HQ, where I was attending our 2nd annual Identity Management Customer Advisory Board conference. The 3-day event is the zenith of a continuous process that combines quarterly meetings with 1-on-1 discussions to provide all involved a valuable platform to gather, discuss and align our vision of all things
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. No longer. IDC just released a report profiling the IdM implementation Silicon Image has done
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 an IAM project that took his previous employer from a failed audit to a successful
I have received a couple of requests from people for the presentations we gave at OpenWorld. They are available for download from the Oracle OpenWorld Website. If you click on Content Catalog on the right, it opens a new window where you can search for the sessions you are interested in. For the identity management
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 flew by, I did have some interesting conversations with a few of the attendees. In
The last few days, I have been experiencing the spectacle that is OpenWorld. And what a spectacle it is. Howard street is blocked off, covered by a huge tent. Everything, even buses, are painted Oracle colors, and every signal change at the intersection lets loose a sea of people rushing around trying to get to
Next week (actually, starting Saturday) is Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle’s annual conference dedicated to helping enterprises understand and harness the power of information. From what I hear, it is going to be huge, and San Francisco is already starting to look Oracle red, with banners and signage everywhere. I have never been to an OpenWorld conference
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 topic of application-centric IdM. Well, it happened, and was a pretty well received webinar.
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, what he asked was this: Why do I, as an application architect, care about this?