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A hearty congrats to my friends and old co-workers at Tivoli on a job well done. ITIM 5.0 has been officially released! Having been part of the beta program, I can say that this is an amazing release. A great deal of thought and research has gone into ITIM 5.0 and in the bits I have seen, customers are really going to enjoy using it. Yes, I said enjoy. The new user interfaces are enjoyable to use. Amazing and true. Good work everyone. Nishant, in a light hearted manner, took my post on Sun acquiring Vaau as a bit of a dare. This is how I responded to his comment:
How vendors like Sun and Oracle integrate their ERM acquisitions will have a very tangible impact on the future direction of identity management. Both are in a position to unlock the true value of enterprise role management. The step of integrating ERM in user provisioning is a no brainer, though it will be interesting to see how fast each vendor can do it. What is more interesting is the step beyond that. I started to ruminate on that before… guess we’ll have to wait and see what comes. In the meantime, it would be great if someone like Kevin Kampman would weigh in on this. A second enterprise roles management company has been acquired. Sun has announced intent to buy Vaau. Congrats to Sachin, Steve Tiches, and the rest of the gang at Vaau. You are definitely joining a great team. It will interesting to see how fast Sun can tie Vaau’s various components to their existing suite. I have to imagine that what was Identity Auditor, now part of Identity Manager, will be replaced entirely by Vaau’s identity audit capability. Comparing Sun’s time to integrate Vaau to Oracle’s time to integrate Bridgestream ought to be interesting as well. I think that Phil’s take on this sits somewhere in between Dave’s cynicism and Eric’s unabashed joy. I do agree with Dave in that I doubt that this acquisition signals a market consolidation – the entitlement market is too new. Look at the role management market as an example: it’s been around for a few years, lived longer than most expected, and just now are we seeing consolidation. I love shooting without a flash. So does Bob and he just published a good public service announcement for shooting without using a flash. (I do like that second shot of Mike a lot.) There are a bunch of people in the greater identity management world who would consider themselves amateur photographers. I wonder if there is commonality of photography and IdM that practitioners of both find compelling. From a content perspective, the aspects of a picture I take that I really like are, in some sense, a reflection of me. Maybe this photo/IdM thing comes back to relationships. We are looking for ourselves in our subjects. |
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