Industry analysts produce their studies and fancy charts for decades. There is no doubt that some of them are quite influential. But have you ever wondered how are the results of these studies produced? Do the results actually reflect reality? How are the positions of individual products in the charts determined? Are the methodologies based Read more about How Precise are the Analysts?[…]
Resources (target or source systems) are the heart of every identity management system or provisioning tool. Of course, one might argue that users (subjects) are most important and that statement is not wrong. However, without resources, there would simply be nowhere to connect to. Certainly, this debate is not the point of this article. Its Read more about Is Resource Configuration Hell? Not in MidPoint 3.1![…]
I’m dealing with the OpenAM and its predecessors for a very long time. I remember Sun Directory Server Access Management Edition (DSAME) in early 2000s. After many years and (at least) three rebrandings, the product was finally released as OpenSSO. That’s where Oracle struck and killed the product. ForgeRock picked it up. And that’s where Read more about Hacking OpenAM, Level: Nightmare[…]
The Evolveum team is great. I cannot put it in any other way. It is the best team that I have ever worked with. I have a long history of projects that I worked on: big projects, small projects, corporate projects, academic projects, consulting projects, deployment projects, development projects … and some of these were Read more about Evolveum Winter 2015[…]
This year we finally visited famous FOSDEM, that was our destination This year we finally visited famous free conference for software developers to meet, share, collaborate and grow their communities. Just like every year, the event was organized in Brussels and was hosted by the Université Libre. The main motivation was to explore the conference Read more about FOSDEM 2015: Attending and observing[…]
MidPoint 3.1 was released few days ago. This version is code-named “Sinan” in honor of Koca Mimar Sinan, Turkish architect and civil engineer. Sinan was undoubtedly one of the best and most efficient builder of civic structures that the world has ever seen. And that’s exactly how we want it to be: efficient, elegant and useful. Read more about MidPoint 3.1: New release called Sinan[…]
When I was a child, I wanted to become everything but programmer. As I was growing up my dream jobs were changing as well. As a little child I dreamed about being a model, later I wanted to become a teacher. During my high school times I thought I will be a lawyer. And now Read more about Remote office[…]
In 2010 we were happy when the project compiled. In 2011 we were happy when most tests passed. In 2012 we were happy when all tests passed. In 2013 we were happy when we had a stable deployment. In 2014 we were happy when our software surpassed most competing products. … really I wonder what Read more about 2015[…]
So the last weekend was dedicated to IDM solution upgrade procedure – and it all went OK! After several months of continuous integration of new target systems and expressions and after weeks of integration and acceptance testing we got a green light and the upgrade was started. How does such upgrade look like? Is it Read more about Successful IDM solution upgrade[…]
I will never use any closed-source IAM again. You will have to use force to persuade me to do it. I’m not making this statement lightly. I was working with closed-source IAM systems for the better part of 2000s and it made quite a good living. But I’m not going to do that again. Never Read more about Never Use Closed-Source IAM Again[…]