SAP Ventures, the VC arm of SAP has joined in the $7.5 million Series B funding of Ping Identity, one of the leading innovators in federated identity management. At this year’s Digital Identity World 2005 conference, Ping founder Andre Durand demonstrated the concept of a Security Token Service which underpins the identity metasystem vision for [...]
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 by adminMy fellow analyst James Governor has done a great job of summarising the recent CA industry analyst symposium. The candour of the senior management team was indeed refreshing and the team in Islandia has clearly undertaken an honest appraisal of the ‘old’ CA. With 75% of revenue from 1000 large enterprise customers and 90% of [...]
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 by adminAn interesting article from Harvard Business School on the changing role of the CIO (If you can get past the title). In short: successful utilization of IT is about delivering business value. To do this CIOs have to be able to think and act much more widely than they have traditionally done – to embrace [...]
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 by adminReferring back to my earlier post – a quick pointer – in eWeek: Oracle continues to flatter SAP by mirroring the capabilities and application of NetWeaver. John Wookey (Oracle’s SVP of App Dev) is reported as saying that process management and BI enhancements could be Oracle’s differentiator against SAP…hmmm…
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 by admin
