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Ben Laurie of The Bunker Secure Hosting has a provocative post about the two emerging (and that’s important) leaders in user-centric identity: OpenID and CardSpace. He quite rightly points out that at present OpenID’s: popularity is entirely on the provider side. There are no consumers of note. and that CardSpace: appears to live in its [...]
Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I’ve read a number of articles and thought pieces recently that explore the problems with approaches to IT delivery that focus too much on projects as the organising concept – particularly when it comes to SOA adoption. The shortcomings of an overly project-focused approach are something I can agree with wholeheartedly. The research we conducted [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 by adminUser-centricity, Trust: Technology or Practice? : yvonne’s Weblog Yvonne Wilson, an IT architect at Sun, discusses some of the decision processes around user-centric versus organisation-centric approaches: user-centricity is appropriate for situations where the user is the authoritative source for information. LDAP.com – Commentary by Mark Wahl, CISA – Digital ID World keynote: Kim Cameron on [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 by adminWeb Services Contraptions – MSN, Windows Live and Windows CardSpace Gerry Beuchelt of Sun comments on the recent announcement of Windows LiveID accepting Info Cards. I have tried it out on Windows with IE and CardSpace and Mac with Firefox and DIgitalMe and it works perfectly Identity 2.0 Account delegation standard released: OAuth 1.0 now [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 by admin» SAP gets SaaS: can it run with it? | Software as Services | ZDNet.com Phil Wainewright summarises the good and bad points about SAP’s entry into the SaaS arena with Business ByDesign Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: ByDesign: has SAP unleashed a cannibal? Nick Carr highlights that the company most threatened by SAP’s SaaS [...]
Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2007 by adminUncategorized
For many many years in analyst circles, it was almost obligatory when talking about IT vendors to say “well of course, HP makes all its profit from ink”. I remember looking, year after year, at marching rows of red figures as HP focused in on the performance of its software division in particular. It was [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 by adminThere have been two notable events this week in the collaboration software market – firstly the acquisition of Zimbra by Yahoo! on Tuesday, followed by Novell’s reach into the broader collaboration market through the release of two new products, Novell Teaming and Novell Teaming and Conferencing. Yahoo’s purchase of Zimbra, a small, California-based start-up which [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 by adminColumn 2 : The three killers of business rhythm Very neat explanation of IT-business alignment challenges in the guise of BPM, from Alan Trefler of Pegasystems via Sandy Kemsley
Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 by adminMuleSource brings its ESB platform to the cloud | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com MuleOnDemand, MuleSource’s hosted ESB and integration platform offering The force joins Salesforce.com | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Salesforce.com launches Force.com, the name and URL for the new hosted platform based on Apex
Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 by adminManaged information cards for secure online purchasingKim Cameron’s highlights the collaboration between Ping Identity and ACI (whose software processes more than half the world’s credit card transactions) who are building a prototype to allow secure payment using info cards
Posted on Saturday, September 15, 2007 by admin
