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[…]
Here I would like to say a few words about my use of IntelliJ IDEA while working on Evolveum midPoint project. I am a quite conservative man. So that although my colleagues had been positively talking about IntelliJ IDEA for some time, I used Eclipse and didn’t think about switching over. At that time, I Read more about My experiences with IntelliJ IDEA[…]
Before using IntelliJ IDEA, I used to work with another IDE, Eclipse. After some issues with tomcat configuration, my colleagues suggested using IDEA as a development tool for our project, MidPoint. Of course, the process of transformation from one IDE to another is always a little painful, but after some help from my colleagues and Read more about Why do I prefer IntelliJ IDEA?[…]
We would like to announce that one of several ongoing migrations from Sun IdM to midPoint has successfully finished. It was done by our partner AMI Praha. They published interesting article describing their deployment, unfortunately only in Czech language, available at nasazeni-idm-midpoint-v-ami-praha. We would like to highlight that it is a typical deployment for a Read more about Sun IdM to midPoint migration (case study)[…]
We proudly announce that Evolveum will take part at the European Identity & Cloud Conference 2014 as an exhibitor. We would like to invite you to meet us on this prestige conference which has become an absolute must-attend event for more than 500 enterprise IT leaders from all over Europe and beyond. Let us offer Read more about EIC 2014[…]
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[…]
When customizing midPoint for deployment, you will need expressions sooner or later. In this post, I would like to present one possible way of the email expression evolution. Let’s suppose that our target system has an account attribute “InternetAddress” to store user’s e-mail address. Goal generate e-mail address based on user’s givenName and familyName attributes. Read more about Expression Evolution In Real Life[…]
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[…]