It can be said that Identity Management (IDM) was born in early 2000s. That was the time when many people realized that a single big directory just won’t do it. They realized that something different was needed to bring order into the identity chaos. That was the dawn of a user provisioning system. Early market Read more about The Old IDM Kings Are Dead. Long Live the New Kings.[…]
Identity and Access Management projects are very common nowadays. The interesting fact is that too many of them either vastly under-deliver or totally fail. I have been fighting in the IAM trenches for many long years and I have seen both successful and failed projects. It looks like to me that the IAM projects are Read more about Five Practical Ways to Ruin Your IAM Project[…]
Open source is a game-changer. But there are fields where open source performs better than it does elsewhere. Infrastructure software is one of the fields that is almost ideal for open source. We have observed this for years. Linux and GNU undoubtedly changed the world. As did Apache. And we are seeing more and more Read more about Open Source Infrastructure[…]
All of us know it: ideas that sounds great but they fail miserably. It is a common sight almost everywhere. But during last few months I’ve heard an unusual number of such ideas related to the Identity and Access Management solutions. I know that veteran IAM practitioners are probably already well aware of them, but Read more about IDM Antipatterns and Best Practice[…]
MidPoint has reached the state of a sophisticated open-source identity provisioning system. It has went through many releases and its provisioning and synchronization capabilities were gradually refined. MidPoint is currently the largest and most sophisticated open source identity provisioning system available on the market. It is as big as its two other competitors combined. And Read more about Developing Newton[…]
MidPoint has went a long way over a last couple of years. It started as a bunch of architecture sketches and it went through many iterations over UML diagrams and prototype code in the early development stages. It survived significant changes in platform and technology and emerged out of that as a lean and lightweight Read more about Enlightenment[…]