Data Provenance and IDM solution midPoint

Plans for Data Provenance

Today is a Data Protection Day, which is a very symbolic day for midPoint. We are taking data protection and privacy very seriously. We believe that privacy in the cyberspace is necessary for the free society to flourish. Despite such belief, we acknowledge the implementation of privacy and data protection may not be easy. But we are not afraid of challanges. We are fully committed to implement privacy and data protection features in midPoint. […]

IDM without integrated workflow engine

Workflowless

MidPoint ditched workflow engine. Scandal! How dare they? IDM without a workflow engine? Blasphemy! Abomination! Workflow was a holly cow of provisioning for almost 20 years. Hordes of IDM systems were born (and died) with integrated workflow engine. From the cumbersome proprietary workflow engine of Waveset Lighthouse to the open source BPMN engine of Apache Syncope, workflow was a natural part of identity management. Except one pesky little detail: it does not make sense.