Evolveum and kayaking

Defeating Wild Waters With Evolveum: Stanovsky Brothers’ Story

Hello All! We are two Stanovsky brothers doing Kayak sports. We are training together with our father as a coach. For us it is not just sport but a passion. Canoe Slalom is truly dynamic and attractive sport for spectators. For us it is the most beautiful and challenging one. We love to get in Read more about Defeating Wild Waters With Evolveum: Stanovsky Brothers’ Story[…]

Open Source and Contracts: MSA and SOW, Part II

Open Source and Contracts: MSA and SOW, Part II

In the previous article I illustrated model situation when using software requires vendor’s services with particular contracts in place and wrote in more details about Master Service Agreement (MSA). Let’s have a closer look at its inherent part, the Statement of Work (SOW) and why it is important for organizations not to underestimate it. Statement Read more about Open Source and Contracts: MSA and SOW, Part II[…]

MidPoint in Higher Education: Orgs, Roles and Relations

MidPoint in Higher Education: Orgs, Roles and Relations

Disclaimer: This particular blog post contains advanced configuration options for midPoint. It might be difficult to understand all the details for those without experience with midPoint. The first MidPoint in Higher Education blog post gave us a brief overview of the possible complexity of identity management in the higher education environment. Therefore today we can Read more about MidPoint in Higher Education: Orgs, Roles and Relations[…]

Evolveum: data provenance workshop results

Data Provenance Workshop Results

Phase 1 of midPrivacy project is almost complete now. Even though it is ongoing for only half of a year, we managed to discover a lot about metadata processing. Some of it we have implemented into the midPoint code, but we have also realized the problem is more complex than we have thought at the Read more about Data Provenance Workshop Results[…]

Evolveum - MSA And SOW: Part i

Open Source and Contracts: MSA and SOW, Part I

In today’s digital era probably everybody of us knows that source code of the Open Source Software (OSS) is publicly available. A good example is GitHub platform. And most of us know where to find such code’s conditions of use. However, what will happen if we need development of new features or qualified and effective Read more about Open Source and Contracts: MSA and SOW, Part I[…]

MidPoint in Higher Education: Archetypes

MidPoint in Higher Education: Archetypes

In the introductory blog about midPoint in higher education I promised that the next blog post would be about relations and organizational units. It is taking a bit longer to finalize, but hopefully it will be worth it. In the meantime, let us examine the possible uses of archetypes in midPoint. Primary purpose of archetypes Read more about MidPoint in Higher Education: Archetypes[…]

Evolveum: midPoint in higher ed

MidPoint in Higher Education: Introduction

MidPoint follows several design principles. One from the main is flexibility. MidPoint will never push you to change your infrastructure or even your world perception. Quite the contrary, it will give you enough flexibility to model the surrounding world precisely as you seem fit. This principle is great and not-that-great at the same time. Obviously, Read more about MidPoint in Higher Education: Introduction[…]