midPoint on Mars

Per Identitam Ad Astra: We Are Going Multiplanetary

Humanity has been exploring Mars since 1960. With its 38% gravity of the Earth’s, thin yet protective atmosphere and day-night rhythm very similar to ours, it is believed that Mars is one of Earth’s closest habitable neighbors in our solar system. Next logical step after Mars exploration is a permanent settlement and building new society. Read more about Per Identitam Ad Astra: We Are Going Multiplanetary[…]

Evolveum midPoint 4.2 Maxwell

midPoint 4.2 “Maxwell”

MidPoint 4.2 “Maxwell” has been released. It brings major improvements for data provenance, reports or auditing. Last but not least, it brings also many improvements for user interface, archetypes, autoassignments and repository. Considerable part of development cycle of midPoint 4.2 was dedicated for the project called midPrivacy. Its main goal was to look closer on Read more about midPoint 4.2 “Maxwell”[…]

Open Source Software in the European Union: EUIPO Study

Open Source Software in the European Union: EUIPO Study

Open source has become an integral part of business models in numerous organizations regardless of their size and age. For some, the reasons may be ideological, for some pragmatical: OSS brings strategic benefits related to wider spread of software and larger knowledge pool organizations can tap into. A recent study by EUIPO Observatory focusing on Read more about Open Source Software in the European Union: EUIPO Study[…]

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[…]

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[…]

A Throwback to TIIME 2019

A Throwback to TIIME 2019

Working from home became part of our life. Even if the measurements taken with current worldwide situation are less strict than before, some things are staying unreachable for now. One of them are conferences, even though some of them are adapting and transforming to online environment. The last one I managed to attend with Radovan Read more about A Throwback to TIIME 2019[…]

midPrivacy survey

MidPrivacy Features Survey

midPrivacy project is moving forward at a steady pace. Even though the main effort is still aimed towards the project’s fundamental foundation like Axiom, we are getting to the phase of first experiments on simple use cases. That will eventually lead to tests on more realistic use cases which will consequently lead to new features Read more about MidPrivacy Features Survey[…]