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security, identity management

Security and identity management siloes stifle business innovation. Our security and identity management reports explore the business value of an architectural approach to identity and access management.

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business process management
business process management – Business Process Management (BPM) is a fast-maturing area which bridges both business and IT transformation. It is proving increasingly important as a strategic weapon to drive organisational change and differentiation.

collaboration
collaboration – Organisations are looking for ways to strengthen and rejuvenate their business, with new plans to increase flexibility and drive innovation. Enabling more effective collaboration between people is a key enabler to achieving this goal.

governance, architecture and planning
governance, architecture and planning – Smart IT governance, architecture and strategic planning are critical to IT-business alignment. Our governance, architecture and planning reports cover issues and trends in Enterprise and Business Architecture and related business alignment disciplines.

information management
information management – For a long time, information management discipline was considered as an isolated technology and practice silo. However as organisations look to improve their operational efficiency as well as drive strategy more accurately, information management has to be more tightly woven with other practices.

IT service management
IT service management – IT service management is about much more than ITIL. Our IT service management reports explain the critical role it plays in ensuring that IT operations are aligned with business priorities for service delivery. This involves a focus on both service efficiency and effectiveness.

software delivery
software delivery – Business pressures are driving change in development processes. Our software delivery reports explore what's happening to the way that business software is designed, built, tested and deployed.

recent research

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Published: 15 Jul 08
After the conclusion of its acquisition of BEA in April 2008, on July 1st Oracle delivered a comprehensive preview to all-comers of its plans for integrating the BEA organisation and products. We'll admit to being pessimistic about BEA's prognosis going into the Oracle acquisition, but Oracle's ...
Published: 12 May 08
This On the Radar report looks at Courion, which provides a portfolio of identity management and compliance products focused on user provisioning, self-service password management, access compliance and role management, which it collectively positions as its Enterprise Provisioning Suite. It should ...
Published: 09 Apr 08
This On the Radar report looks at The Dot Net Factory, which provides a role-based identity and entitlement suite, EmpowerID, based on the company's workflow management platform. EmpowerID should be of interest to you if you looking to address provisioning and access management requirements around ...
Published: 08 Oct 07
This On the Radar report looks at Arcot Systems, which sells a portfolio of authentication, digital signature and online payment solutions.
Published: 01 Aug 07
This On the Radar report looks at Ping Identity, which sells a portfolio of federated identity and authentication products and also provides a user-centric identity Internet service called SignOn.com
Published: 25 Jul 07
Sun provides strong coverage of all the key capabilities you are likely to need from identity management infrastructure, although it is lacking in a few important areas. Sun acknowledges a number of these weaknesses and has outlined a clear roadmap to address them. The company has built up a very ...
Published: 28 Feb 07
Novell has exploited its heritage in identity management, based around its proven directory product, to provide a comprehensive portfolio of identity management offerings which address a broad range of identity management requirements, although it is lacking in some important areas. The company, to ...
Published: 27 Sep 06
This On the Radar report looks at ActivIdentity, which sells a range of identity and access management products and solutions that enable organisations to extend existing identity management deployments to encompass multi-factor authentication, particularly using smart cards, and remote access. Its ...
Published: 23 May 06
Identity management infrastructure is a key enabler of a broad array of strategic enterprise initiatives, both business and IT. This report is the first in a set of two, which between them explain how enterprises can frame their thinking about their requirements for identity management technology, ...
Published: 23 May 06
Identity management infrastructure is a key enabler of a broad array of strategic enterprise initiatives, both business and IT. This report is the second in a set of two, which between them explain how organisations can frame their thinking about their requirements for identity management ...

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