Bob's Identity Management Blog

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." – Syrus Publilius

The famous Jackson Shaw noticed that IDC has Quest Software ranked higher in Identity Management than Microsoft. See http://jacksonshaw.blogspot.com/2007/01/quest-beats-microsoft-and-bmc-hp-and.html (for sake of disclosure, this author works for Quest) This doesn’t really surprise me since Microsoft has had several mis-steps in this space. The project known as Gemini was extremely promising, but died on the launch [...]

Service Provisioning Mark-up Langue (SPML) is an Oasis XML standard that defines how to provisoin identity data between disparate systems without the need of a complex metadirectory solution like MIIS. Unfortunatly, the SPML 1.0 spec was not extensive enough to make SPML appealing; version 2.o however resolves this problem. SPML 2.0 supports the necessary verbs [...]