Second Life is an Internet-based virtual world developed by Linden Labs. It uses advanced virtual world technology to create what is, in essence, a highly sophisticated social networking application. Users of the system, called “Residents”, can explore, meet one another, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade items (virtual property) and services.
What exactly do we mean when we say Identity as a Service? Recent discussions have made me realize that not everyone has the exact same definition of this term, and it can cause a great deal of confusion when discussing the subject. Identity as a Service refers to the notion of making identity management capabilities
As usual, it has taken a while for me to resurface from my latest conference stint. Not because I overextended myself while in Vegas for Collaborate. That only warrants a few days. No, the real reason is that being offline from work for just a few days means loads of catching up to do. And
Next week I’ll be heading to the conference capital of the country – Las Vegas – to attend the Collaborate 07 conference. Collaborate is a unique conference that brings together 3 different user groups in the Oracle community – IOUG, OAUG and QUEST – that covers all the product lines in the Oracle family (find
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
By the way, it seems that there are some issues with features and controls on my blog. Thanks to a number of emails from readers, I realized a while ago that my post archive has not been working. Also, seems that the comments people posted to my blog are not being handled correctly. I put
About a month ago now I did a post about account reconciliation capabilities that I believed were necessary to make reconciliation practical. My post was triggered by a session I attended by IBM’s Stuart McIrvine, during which he answered a question about ways to correlate identities by saying it should be done based on common
A few months ago, I wrote a post in which I took issue with the statement that “Role Management will become the focus of Compliance”. My objection kicked off a flurry of responses from various folks, expressing opinions that covered the gamut. I received a lot of responses disagreeing with me, with quite a few
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