We were starting up a new company in 2011. We had with very little money and limited business experience. However, we had a good team, a vision and a code. The experts would say that starting up a company based on engineering, with no sales, no marketing and no rich investors equals a suicide. Yet, a decade later, we are still here, more successful than ever. We have built up a sustainable business based on open source. […]
Early summer 2011, ten years ago. We started midPoint project. We were preparing to set up a company to provide funding for midPoint development. We got the name, but there is much more than just a name needed to establish a company. […]
For those who have missed it or would like to refresh their mind, we are bringing you this short report about How to Automate Zoom Account Provisioning webinar held on March 18, 2021. Presenters from Evolveum and Exclamation Labs were talking about options for managing accounts in Zoom. The webinar started with a description of Read more about How to Automate Zoom Account Provisioning Webinar Retrospective[…]
Naming things is hard. It is even harder to find good name for a company, especially if a company is built to last. Such as Evolveum. So, how did our company got its name? This is a story of the name, going back a decade, to early 2011. […]
Schrodinger framework is a tool which is used for automated testing of the midPoint user interface. Schrodinger code is adopted exactly for midPoint project so with its help the tester can simulate midPoint user activities in a web browser. Starting from midPoint 4.3, Schrodinger framework was separated to a distinct project (previously it was a Read more about Testing Schrodinger Framework Webinar Summary[…]
Since the creation of its open source identity management and governance platform midPoint, Evolveum has always had a strong connection to higher education. Not only midPoint’s feature and connector set appeared to be a great fit for academia needs, it is also Evolveum’s openness, vivid community and rich accessible documentation that played the role in Read more about Internet2 Launches InCommon Catalyst Program With Evolveum as One of the 8 Inaugural Catalysts[…]
MidPoint is primarily synchronous system. Its major processes like reconciliation, live synchronization or regular provisioning work in synchronous mode. However, recent releases have brought a possibility of asynchronous communication (e.g. based on messaging) with both source and target resources. These are asynchronous updates in version 4.0 and asynchronous provisioning in version 4.3. When to Use Read more about Asynchronous Resources With ActiveMQ Webinar Summary[…]
There are some questions asked by midPoint community, questions that go back to the early days of the project. MidPoint is ten years old, therefore this is appropriate time to have a look back. So, why is midPoint called “midPoint”? […]
MidPoint 4.3 “Faraday” introduced new query language, Axiom Query, which gives users powerful search capabilities directly in GUI, but can also be used in XML. The motivation was to create easy to understand language, which can be used across whole midPoint and enable more powerful queries without the need of writing XML filters. We were Read more about Axiom Query Language Webinar Summary[…]
MidPoint 1.7 “Prometheus” was released exactly ten years ago. It was the very first midPoint release, yet the code had an interesting history behind it. This is a story of the first release, going back a decade. […]