I get one question frequently from both customers and colleges. “Why was ActiveRoles able to so easily beat the competition over the past seven years?” Unfortunately, there isn’t a single answer, rather it is a combination of design elements put into the product over time. Purpose Built for Active Directory -Unlike other solutions, ActiveRoles was [...]
The four reasons I mentioned in part 2 of this post I hope shed some light on why pure Virtual Directory solutions are not more widely deployed. In all four cases there is only a passing need for a single view of the multiple identity store information, but almost no need to directly interact with [...]
So why do customers need multiple directories? I see two major reasons for customers deploying multiple directories. Separation of Operations – this is the most popular reason and is easily attributed to security or most companies deal with. The most typical reason I see is when a customer has an internal and external. Internal Politics [...]
Over the past few years I have had the pleasure of visiting and working with a pretty large number of directory owners. Those I have visited typically have Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) and many have one or two additional directories and one or two had dozens. For customers that have multiple directories I would have [...]
