Having a free minute on my hands, I decided to go back through some of my older posts and assign some tags. Innocent enough. The only problem is that the Twitter plugin I use here at Tuesdaynight treats those edits as new posts, adding them to my stream of tweets. Sorry ‘bout that, those of you following me at Twitter.
Part two of my three part series on Audit Trail.
The deal is done. To Ed, Volker, and all my friends over at Bridgestream - a hearty congratulations. I have to figure that people are going to start clamoring about market consolidation in the ERM space and it will reach a climax at Digital ID World just a few weeks away. Anyone want to through a prediction of who the next ERM company to get acquired will be? So Ron Rymon of Eurekify threw it out there:
If the 451 Group got it right (as reported in this Dark Reading article), then the bar has just been set for Enterprise Role Management buyout deals. $35 million. $35 million? I can’t tell if that number is high or low. Let’s consider than Access360 and Waveset had estimated price tags of roughly $100 million. Are we to imply that role management market should be sized at roughly a third of the overall provisioning market? That I doubt. The question that I am pondering is - who in the company derives the most value from an ERM deployment? HR? IT operations? IT ops derives value from role mining as it deploys user provisioning. HR can definitely get something out of top-down role lifecycle functions. But in both cases, to unlock that derived value, the company needs another technology to act as a proxy for role technologies. It is hard to derive the value of role mining without a user provisioning system. It is hard to derive value from top-down role lifecycle management without… an HR system. And maybe that’s it. If this is true, and Oracle bought Bridgestream, then Oracle’s strategy is a three staged one. First, augment Oracle Identity Manager with traditional role management and mining functions. Provide strong capabilities to tie business roles to IT roles. Provide role mining capabilities. Second, use Bridgestream’s enterprise/business role capabilities to augment Oracle’s numerous HR systems. PeopleSoft HR + Bridgestream = a very interesting combination. Third, continue to make good on the promise of tying ERP to IdM. If Fusion HR could publish dynamic business definitions (containing roles and organization structures) that OIM could tap, then Oracle customers would be well on their way to becoming more governable organizations. Let’s see if after Labor Day there is any truth to this rumor.
Part one of my thee part series over at Audit Trail on the challenges of provisioning complex, core business systems.
I don’t know about you, but drilling into the electrical main supplying juice to a house does not sound like a good time. This whole affair is strange enough, but the fact that it occured in my hometown is even stranger. BTW, my parents got FIOS from Verizon. After a few months of wrangling they finally got it installed properly. Pretty damn fast, but a pretty big pain in the butt.
About a week ago, my mother-in-law showed me how to make refrigerator pickles. I just sampled the first batch. Notes:
More later.
So Mark thinks that I am the first person to take the “when I was you age…” approach to describing user provisioning. He might be right.
In my mind the follow doesn’t seem that difficult. Given a WSDL document and some XSD, I would like to find a tool that can generate the beginnings of an AJAX application. Yes, I know that Eclipse can generate a Java client given some WSDL, but I am looking for a HTML/JavaScript client. Any ideas?
I have a bad habit. (Well, there’s a lot of those, but we don’t have time for that.) I tend to come up with really great explanations for things and a) forget to write them down and b) forget what I said in the first place. The same thing tends to happen when I write a blog entry or whitepaper… I go back and look at it and think “Wow! How did I ever come up with that?” Recently, I came up with an easy to follow explanation of user provisioning. This time, for once, someone actually captured it so I can reuse it. And better still, it was videotaped: [Introduction to Identity Management and User Provisioning](Introduction to Identity Management and User Provisioning) via Approva’s Audit Trail