Entries Tagged as 'IDM'

I read an article in CIO Magazine about the plight of today's CIOs when multi-million dollar multi-year projects go awry.  The article entitled "The CIO Scapegoat" indicates that it is unfair to hold the IT department completely responsible when there are so many other business units that contribute to a project's demise.  In many cases, the CIO takes the fall for the failure and, as a direct result, they are either demoted, moved into a different organization or let go altogether.

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It is now common knowledge that Oracle announced its intention to buy Sun Microsytems for $7.4B. The acquisition will be completed in the next 3-5 months.  Speaking from the viewpoint as an ex Sun employee, I think this move makes lot of sense.  At the same time I was very surprised at this turn of events.
The Oracle-Sun acquisition has a lot of implications for the IT sector as a whole. In the next paragraphs I’m going to attempt to analyze this event on two levels:  political and technological.

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By now, many of you have already heard about the hacking of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account earlier this week (on or about Tuesday 9/16/2008). One of the big benefits of an Identity Management solution is that it provides end-users with a way to update their own data and reset their own passwords. But just like everything else, there has to be a careful balance between security and convenience.

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I have been implementing and/or managing identity-related projects for over 10 years now and I can say, from experience, that the biggest problem with any Identity Management project can be summed up in one word: EXPECTATIONS.

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The Identity Management market space is continuing to change. Large vendors are gobbling up smaller niche players and alliances are being formed that bring identity management vendors together to provide total solutions for our customers.

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