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Courtesy of InternetNews on Tuesday I learned that IBM has added support for OpenID, Windows CardSpace and Eclipse’s Higgins Identity Framework to its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (FIM) offering. As one of the enterprise identity management heavyweights, IBM’s announcement is an important endorsement of user-centric identity approaches. Such approaches are still in the formative phase [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 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
Perhaps it’s because we’re in the run up to the holiday season or because the press release came from the UK that accounts for the lack of commentary on the announcement that Experian has developed a CardSpace proof of concept with Microsoft. This is notable for a couple of reasons. First it’s another of what [...]
Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 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 adminThose of you with an interest in authentication, online payment and digital document signing solutions might want to take a look at our latest On The Radar report, which focuses on Arcot Systems. Arcot is a 120-person company headquartered in California with a suite of four software-only authentication solutions, which should be of interest if [...]
Posted on Monday, October 8, 2007 by adminUncategorized
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
Microsoft agrees to participate in ID project … For the first time representatives of Liberty Alliance and Microsoft are going to sit down together … Microsoft is to meet this month with vendors and organisations that are backing several different identity management systems. The Microsoft meeting suggests that cooperation between the software giant and its [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 7, 2007 by adminUncategorized
It’s perhaps unsurprising, given all the brouhaha surrounding Microsoft’s claims that open source software infringes on 235 of its patents (which incidentally I take to be largely ‘sabre rattling’ from Redmond in the face of the implications of the GPLv3 for its deal with Novell, as discussed in the Risk Factors of the latter’s recent [...]
Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 by adminUncategorized
Well, better late than never. SAP today announced the acquisition of privately-held MaXware, a supplier of identity management infrastructure. Back in June 2005, I discussed SAP Venture’s (its VC arm) investment in another identity management specialist: Ping Identity and at the beginning of 2006 predicted that SAP would enter the identity management acquisition fray. My [...]
Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 by admin
