(Cross posted at blog.identropy.com) What does marketing have to do with cloud Identity Management? Quite a bit, it seems. Last week, HMV (a European retailer) laid off 190 employees . A...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2013/02/should-cmos-fund-next-generation-of.html
Identropy will be hosting a webinar with our friends at IDC entitled "Reducing your IDM Operating Costs Using IDaaS" in a couple of weeks (Tuesday, Feb 14). Nishant from Identropy and Sally Huds...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2012/02/identropy-reviews-cutting-identity.html
Some of you might have followed the conversation in the blogosphere regarding SPML a few months back. If interested, get up to speed by reading the posts below: - Mark Diodati, Burton Group: SPM...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2010/08/regarding-potential-way-forward-for.html
Jackson Shaw put up a few interesting posts last week regarding IAM Project Failures. The first was a company that sank $7M into an IAM Initiative that never took off. The second was an informa...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2010/07/iam-failuresproduct-or-services.html
An interesting discussion emerged out of a blog entry over at the Identropy blog on developing a Deprovisioning Policy. I've reproduced both the contents of the blog and the comments section (w...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2010/04/on-developing-deprovisoining-policy.html
Here's some geek humor. A buddy of mine sent me an old email correspondence I had with him back in 2006 (back when ILM, I mean FIM, was MIIS). I was doing my best to get him going on the training...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2010/02/sorry-miis-its-not-you-its-me.html
I've recently been involved in putting together a blog series on developing an Identity Management roadmap. It's a 3 part series over at the Identropy blog . Part 3 is a bit long for my taste, b...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2010/01/series-on-developing-identity.html
I received the following email today from our friends at Fischer : > http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/01/another-entry-into-idm-managed-services.html > > > > Dear Ashraf Moti...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/11/manged-dentity-servces-copyrighted.html
Matt Gardiner over at the CA blog makes some interest points regarding identity services and SaaS. (I'm a new reader of Matt's blog, and want to personally thank him for adding yet another Matt...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/09/identity-services-saas-and-another-matt.html
Jackson Shaw posted some of his thoughts today on enterprise-class SaaS provisioning... > "If you consider an SaaS application as "just another application" > you will understand ...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/06/on-saas-provisioning.html
- Identity Management Project Scoping, Part I Identity Management Project Scoping, Part II -
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/05/diy-identity-management-project-scoping.html
Salesmen are an interesting bunch. They have to drink the company kool-aid to enable them to sell with conviction. But what happens when a salesperson starts to waver in that conviction? What hap...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/04/fud-swings-both-ways.html
The shocking (at least to me) story of Oracle acquiring Sun yesterday made me think about an experience I had helping a client in the vendor selection process late last year. The client was see...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/04/story-about-vendor-selection-and-fud.html
Oracle just put out an interesting whitepaper on how to use their virtual directory product with Sharepoint. A few interesting scenarios: Allow users to authenticate to SharePoint with Windows ...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/04/virtual-directory-whitepaper.html
I'm in the early stages of working with a colleague on a whitepaper on guidelines for business process re-engineering for provisioning projects, and thought I'd share some of our thoughts to see...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/04/some-process-re-engineering-principals.html
I'm a big fan of iterations in identity management implementations. The reason is pretty simple: you can't learn from lessons until you try. (You could learn from consulting firms, but not about ...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/04/pottery-making-iterations-and-identity.html
President Obama named Vivek Kundra as the nation's first CIO today. An interesting tidbit caught my eye. > Kundra also worked as vice president of marketing for Evincible > Software,...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/03/nations-first-cio-has-idm-background.html
A series of blog posts on self-service deprovisioning in the federation world got me thinking about a simpler, albeit very real, problem with the "traditional" deprovisioning process in a com...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/02/where-is-motivation-for-deprovisioning.html
Mark Wilcox put up a post responding to my previous queries about the virtues of persistent cache and virtual directories. The bottom line of my post was around performance, so Mark gives some ...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-on-vds-and-cache.html
Brad Feld just posted a set of 5 docs entitled "Model Seed Funding Documents" that I really wished I had a few years ago. (It has a term sheet and subscription agreement!) Anyone who is going t...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/02/funding-doc-templates-from-vc-saving.html
Hot off the Canadian Press : > The Canada Revenue Agency has issued at least $3-million in > paycheques to people who don't work there, says a new audit. > "Overpayments g...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/02/deprovision-were-in-recession.html
I just read an interesting press release this morning from Watson SCS , an IBM Identity Management SI. They've announced an off-premise managed service offering offering called Identity Manageme...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/01/another-entry-into-idm-managed-services.html
I pinged Joe (Nobody?) on Twitter last week regarding Identity Management POCs. Joe put up a lengthy post on his blog regarding some of his thoughts from the perspective of the vendor (so it se...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2009/01/on-identity-pocs-from-vendors.html
In this economy, I've been repeatedly pinged by clients on how to maximize their investment in their existing Identity Management software investment. In other words "I want to do all this stuff,...
http://identityman.blogspot.com/2008/12/poor-mans-deprovisioning.html