Tasks In MidPoint 4.4 Webinar Summary

Tasks In MidPoint 4.4 Webinar Summary

By the end of November we have released midPoint 4.4 “Tesla”. This release arrives with significant performance and scalability improvements, among other interesting things. In the Tasks webinar, we talked about new activity-based conceptual model for tasks and described the simplified task definition language. Afterwards, we went on to show the improvements (mainly in the area Read more about Tasks In MidPoint 4.4 Webinar Summary[…]

Midpoint 4.4 Upgrade and Migration Webinar Summary

Midpoint 4.4 Upgrade and Migration Webinar Summary

By the end of November we have released MidPoint 4.4 “Tesla”, which brings not only major performance and scalability improvements, but also significant user experience and reporting improvements. In the Upgrade and Migration webinar, we talked about upgrade process from midPoint 4.0.x and 4.3.x to the latest midPoint 4.4 and then we focused on the migration Read more about Midpoint 4.4 Upgrade and Migration Webinar Summary[…]

From Waveset to midPoint, Part 2

Sun Identity Manager is a king that has fallen. It is now called Oracle Waveset and it is as good as dead. Yet there are still many Sun IDM installations that hesitate with the migration. One of the major concern is the cost of the migration project. But as I have written in the first Read more about From Waveset to midPoint, Part 2[…]

From Waveset to midPoint, Part 1

Back in 2000s the Sun Identity Manager was the king. It was the best IDM product pursuant to Gartner. It had a good market share. And according to my experience it was actually the only practical IDM system on the market. Sun Identity Manager is now dead. It died in 2010 when Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle. Sun IDM was renamed to Oracle Waveset and the development of the product has been immediately stopped. But Sun IDM is a tough one. Even though it was killed 6 years ago it still survives in a creepy half-life form to this day. Oracle obviously tried to migrate all the Sun IDM installations to Oracle Identity Manager. But many customers refused to migrate. We can only speculate about the reasons, although anyone that had any hands-on experience with Oracle IDM will certainly have an opinion about that. Anyway, the future was not entirely bright for those who still maintain Sun IDM installation. But now there is a new hope. […]