OAuth: Introduction A useful summary of the OAuth initiative which sets out to allow individuals to enable access to their resources without revealing their usernames, credentials etc. Liberty Alliance has a similar set of capabilities in ID-WSF and ID-SIS The Patrick Harding BlogPatrick of Ping Identity discusses the relevance (or not) of user-centric ID in [...]
Posted on Friday, November 30, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I just came across Steve Jones’ post, Nodding dog alignment – the perils of aligning to people not business, in which he points out the sad reality that many IT organisations which believe they are aligned with the business aren’t actually delivering value. Why? Because they are aligning with the wrong things. Instead of focusing [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 by adminAndrew McAfee at Harvard Business school poses an interesting question: do ‘managers’ belong on the list of knowledge workers whose jobs are being transformed by information technology? His question is prompted by a number of interesting examples of the use of IT in areas such as “fluid” building fabrication, sculpture, BMW car design and poker [...]
Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 by adminI’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen throwaway comments exhorting companies to “create a centre of excellence (CoE” (mostly, for initiatives like SOA or BPM). Vendor / pundit / analyst / journalist: “Having trouble? Establish a centre of excellence!” Customer: “Oh, that’s OK then, I’ll do that.” But let’s take a deeper [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 by adminI’m pleased to announce that MWD’s new report, Ideals and reality: understanding the context for your enterprise collaboration strategy, is now available for free download from our website. The report offers our perspective on the role of technology in enterprise collaboration, and highlights the key issues facing organisations looking to implement collaborative working practices. One [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 by adminAmazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaS | Software as Services | ZDNet.com A summary of the evolution of Amazon’s "infrastructure-as-a-service" offerings aka EC2, S3 and SQS RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS | Software as Services | ZDNet.com RightScale offers a service to manage Amazon’s EC2. The article includes some debate around [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 by adminTodd Biske: Outside the Box; Blog Archive; Driving SOA Great comments from Todd on the latest Zapthink "flash", which posits the needs for a "VP of SOA". Presumably this is aimed at US organisations, where you can become a VP simply by having someone report to you? Platformonomics – Blue Haze Charles Fitzgerald of Microsoft [...]
Posted on Saturday, November 17, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Back in September Oracle announced that it had acquired privately-held Enterprise Role Management (ERM) player Bridgestream continuing its “identity management-through-acquisition” strategy. With many eyes focused on the company’s Oracle Open World shindig this week, Sun also entered the fray with its plans to acquire another leader ERM independent: Vaau. Role-based access control (RBAC) is hardly [...]
Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 by adminEnterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight…: Call for Papers: Enterprise Architecture ConferenceThanks for the interest in having us present, James! Unfortunately IRM has a habit of turning down our applications to present at EAC… innovation playground Idris Mootee: How Will Enterprise 2.0 Transform The WorkplaceIdris Mootee discusses the practicalities and potential of Enterprise 2.0. Sun [...]
Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 by adminArch BPM blogger-cum-analyst Sandy Kemsley references an interesting conversation she had with some webMethods customers at Software AG’s Integration World event where the customers “pooh pooh the BPM vendors who don’t provide the whole integration stack”. To me, this is interesting because (as Sandy calls out) “these customers are coming from the traditional EAI-type usage [...]
Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 by admin
