Todd Biske: Outside the Box » Blog Archive » SEP Fields and Service Consumption "Without consumers, you have no service. As a service provider, you must be concerned with how your service is being consumed and be doing everything in your power to ensure successful consumption and a positive experience". Grading Gartner and Forrester | [...]
Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 by adminWe’re all set for a launch of the new MWD BPM continuous advisory service on April 14th. This is a completely new business line for us, and we’re really excited. There’s lots of great research and report material in the service at launch, and more set to arrive in the coming months. At launch we [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 by adminSorry to butt in but I thought some of you might be interested in a couple of new On The Radar reports we have recently published. The first looks at Macro 4′s Application Performance Portal (A.P.P.), which is a multi-platform Java application performance management solution. The second looks at StackSafe’s Test Center, an IT infrastructure [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 by adminUncategorized
… you’re waiting for an identity management acquisition and then along come three at once. This time it’s IBM which has acquired 40-person, privately-held Encentuate. If you think that Ecentuate’s size is indicative of gap-filling motivations from IBM then you’d be right. The 7-year old company is a specialist in enterprise single sign-on (ESSO), which [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Hot on the heels of last week’s acquisition of Credentica by Microsoft, Ping Identity (who I covered here in an On The Radar report) announced yesterday that it has acquired the Sxip Access business unit from Sxip Identity. Sxip was early to spot the potential opportunity in providing organisations with a simple, easy-to-deploy single sign-on [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Microsoft has acquired Canadian cryptography specialist Credentica. This news sees Microsoft reverting back to its more traditional approach of acquiring small (Credentica is a team of three) specialist technology vendors to plug very specific gaps. In this case, Credentica brings its U-Prove technology to Microsoft’s Identity & Access Group to enhance the privacy assurance capabilities [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 by admin
