Just a reminder that the Gartner Catalyst Conference being held in San Diego July 26-29th is fast approaching and is one that if it isn't currently on your radar should be there. We at Nulli had been attending the predecessor to this conference since 1999 run by the Burton Group but have made last year's conference probably our last for some time to come.
Even though we see this as a very valuable conference that covers the spectrum of Identity Management, Cloud Computing, Data Management, Network and telecommunications and Content Management amongst other topics. We really like this conference but find with our focus on Identity Mangement and Access Governance and Security that Catalyst is a bit too broad topic wise for our needs and would rather attend conferences with specific focuses in our areas of interest. From a networking and contact relationship building venue Catalyst is also really great but this year we have decided to focus on Garner's Identity Summit. The Summit is held in San Diego as well but is later in the year and seems to have a more focused approach and style that last year our analysts and architects found very very valuable.
In any event please consider attending the Catalyst Conference where you can certainly extend your knowledge of what is happening in the current world of identity management and track multiple other disciplines. It also affords you an opportunity to meet the various vendors in the field who offer hospitality suites and a chance to challenge them on how they deliver solutions that drive ROI and success for your firm.
Hope to see you all later in the year at Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit in San Diego from November 14 - 16 2011.
Derek - IM (a) Solution Architect, (b) HI Architect (c) HI IM Nulli
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
OpenICF Community Launch - Identity Connector Framework (ICF)
ForgeRock, the open source Identity-Oriented middleware company, has joined a global community to launch a new open source project today. The OpenICF, Identity Connector Framework (ICF) community will provide a home for the development of multi-purpose connectors used by identity providers such as ForgeRock's OpenIDM, Oracle Waveset (formerly Sun Identity Manager) and other governance and compliance software.
Nulli has been a developer of open framework connectors for the Sun Identity Manager product and is now working on new connectors that can be contributed to the OpenICF community. Derek Small, CEO of Nulli said, "We are very excited to be contributing partners to the OpenICF community project and look forward to having our identity connectors added to the community pool of resources for this initiative. It's great to provide companies with an industry leading source of identity connectivity for their identity integration projects."
For more information and to see the press release, go to ForgeRock's press release here.
Nulli has been a developer of open framework connectors for the Sun Identity Manager product and is now working on new connectors that can be contributed to the OpenICF community. Derek Small, CEO of Nulli said, "We are very excited to be contributing partners to the OpenICF community project and look forward to having our identity connectors added to the community pool of resources for this initiative. It's great to provide companies with an industry leading source of identity connectivity for their identity integration projects."
For more information and to see the press release, go to ForgeRock's press release here.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Join Us! Identity Breakfast Forum - Feb 7th, Calgary, AB; Mar 1st, Bellevue, WA
Today’s Identity Solutions are going well beyond basic account provisioning and are successfully addressing new business challenges. Furthermore, companies are discovering that identity solutions can provide greater value when business intelligence tools are used to mine identity data. To learn more, join us for an Identity Breakfast Forum in Calgary, Alberta on Monday, Feb. 7th and Bellevue, Washington on Tuesday, March 1st. For more details and to register:
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Oracle Open World 2010 - Post-Conference Thoughts
Nulli Secundus was again in attendance at Oracle Open World 2010 and the conference/marketing festival was everything we expected and then some. Crowds were the name of the game with a reported 40,000 people in attendance. The numbers probably included about 10,000 Oracle sales and marketing people (they were everywhere) and about 8-10,000 JavaOne attendees with the balance being a mix of Oracle partner attendees and customers.
Exalogic was the focus of several of the keynotes by Oracle and we at Nulli are thinking that these machines might be a necessary investment required to support the new SOA and Fusion applications. Having reviewed the new additions to the Oracle 11g Identity and Security suite we think we'll need a "low-end" Exalogic machine fitted into a Samsonite travel suitcase for each of our consultants supporting the roll-out of the new stack.
With the announcement of the long awaited and soon to released Fusion applications, the ExaLogic machines or similiarly configured hardware will be another key component to include in your project budgets. These Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications will need to have a harmony of hardware and software well coordinated in the middle-ware tier to support the Fusion applications from a performance and support perspective.
Larry Ellison made several key presentations during the conference which was a change from previous years. His opening night talk on "the cloud" with a sneak preview on Exalogic set the stage for how important this Open World Conference was for Oracle.
Middle-ware by its very nature lends itself to being complex. The delivery on the SOA suites for Security and Identity 11g by Oracle now ups the ante on how these tools will need to be orchestrated and deployed in close harmony with one another. The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) foundations for all of the Fusion applications and for the newly released Oracle 11g R1 Identity and Security products makes for a need for hardware that can scale and expand to support the data coordination and communication between all the reliant components. I will write more on this in a subsequent post.
Sessions that discussed the roadmap for Identity Management with respect to the Sun Microsystems product set of Sun Identity Manager (IDM, SIM, Waveset), the Sun LDAP directory and Sun OpenSSO were heavily attended. I am not certain everyone walked away with a warm and fuzzy feeling about where things were heading but it left people with an opportunity to hear the options.
Fundamentally, if you are looking at Sun OpenSSO and the Sun LDAP directory server you have a number of updates in your future with Oracle. In the longer-term, if you are looking at the question of "Do I upgrade Sun IDM to version 8?", then you have to assess the pain of upgrading from your current release level to version 8 relative to installing OIM and porting features from Sun IDM. If you are for example at version 6 of Sun IDM, you will need to upgrade 6 to 7 and then 7 to 8 as there is no direct path from 6 to 8. How portable will the connectors be under OIM? Each one under the open connector framework will have to be assessed and a gap analysis conducted to determine which connectors will be ported and which will have to be net-new.
Similarly, with OpenSSO a client will have to investigate the effort and cost of continuing to upgrade from version 7 of OpenSSO to version 8. Clients will also have to weigh the option of upgrading to version 9 or greater as delivered under the OpenSSO community. ForgeRock is now a software development company that has hung its future on the success of continuing to develop the OpenSSO code line with new features and offering full product support to customers interested in an enterprise support model for their software. So customers now need to assess staying with the Oracle OpenSSO applications for Access Management ect. vis-a-vis moving their support model over to ForgeRock's OpenAM and continuing to utilize the OpenSSO applications knowing that there is support and net new features coming from an open-source development company. The other alternative they might consider is switching to Oracle Access Manager (OAM) but this will require parallel infrastructure to be put in place during the migration development, testing and switch to production.
Stay tuned as we at Nulli pull together a migrate vs upgrade analysis that our client can take advantage of during the decision making process.
Exalogic was the focus of several of the keynotes by Oracle and we at Nulli are thinking that these machines might be a necessary investment required to support the new SOA and Fusion applications. Having reviewed the new additions to the Oracle 11g Identity and Security suite we think we'll need a "low-end" Exalogic machine fitted into a Samsonite travel suitcase for each of our consultants supporting the roll-out of the new stack.
With the announcement of the long awaited and soon to released Fusion applications, the ExaLogic machines or similiarly configured hardware will be another key component to include in your project budgets. These Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications will need to have a harmony of hardware and software well coordinated in the middle-ware tier to support the Fusion applications from a performance and support perspective.
Larry Ellison made several key presentations during the conference which was a change from previous years. His opening night talk on "the cloud" with a sneak preview on Exalogic set the stage for how important this Open World Conference was for Oracle.
Middle-ware by its very nature lends itself to being complex. The delivery on the SOA suites for Security and Identity 11g by Oracle now ups the ante on how these tools will need to be orchestrated and deployed in close harmony with one another. The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) foundations for all of the Fusion applications and for the newly released Oracle 11g R1 Identity and Security products makes for a need for hardware that can scale and expand to support the data coordination and communication between all the reliant components. I will write more on this in a subsequent post.
Sessions that discussed the roadmap for Identity Management with respect to the Sun Microsystems product set of Sun Identity Manager (IDM, SIM, Waveset), the Sun LDAP directory and Sun OpenSSO were heavily attended. I am not certain everyone walked away with a warm and fuzzy feeling about where things were heading but it left people with an opportunity to hear the options.
Fundamentally, if you are looking at Sun OpenSSO and the Sun LDAP directory server you have a number of updates in your future with Oracle. In the longer-term, if you are looking at the question of "Do I upgrade Sun IDM to version 8?", then you have to assess the pain of upgrading from your current release level to version 8 relative to installing OIM and porting features from Sun IDM. If you are for example at version 6 of Sun IDM, you will need to upgrade 6 to 7 and then 7 to 8 as there is no direct path from 6 to 8. How portable will the connectors be under OIM? Each one under the open connector framework will have to be assessed and a gap analysis conducted to determine which connectors will be ported and which will have to be net-new.
Similarly, with OpenSSO a client will have to investigate the effort and cost of continuing to upgrade from version 7 of OpenSSO to version 8. Clients will also have to weigh the option of upgrading to version 9 or greater as delivered under the OpenSSO community. ForgeRock is now a software development company that has hung its future on the success of continuing to develop the OpenSSO code line with new features and offering full product support to customers interested in an enterprise support model for their software. So customers now need to assess staying with the Oracle OpenSSO applications for Access Management ect. vis-a-vis moving their support model over to ForgeRock's OpenAM and continuing to utilize the OpenSSO applications knowing that there is support and net new features coming from an open-source development company. The other alternative they might consider is switching to Oracle Access Manager (OAM) but this will require parallel infrastructure to be put in place during the migration development, testing and switch to production.
Stay tuned as we at Nulli pull together a migrate vs upgrade analysis that our client can take advantage of during the decision making process.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Oracle Open World 2010
Members of the Nulli team are off to attend the annual extravaganza known as Oracle Open World. Not really clear about the "Open" component of the conference title but it definitely is a time when San Francisco becomes Oracle World.
The session load can have interesting content based on either customers providing insightful case studies or Oracle product engineers giving product deployment tips. The latter are rather difficult to find and are really a treat you when you come across them. The majority of sessions in the past tend to have a very heavy marketing slant to them or a high-level product overview with few details to assist existing customers on best practices or deployment tips.
We are hoping that this year, as in the past, we will spend most of our time networking with Oracle clients to get insights into their experiences and to spend one-on-one time with Oracle Product Managers or Product developers. This combined with Partner meetings sponsored by Oracle to bring product specialist partners together for networking and relationship development will keep us very busy indeed.
If you are at the conference, and would like to discuss Oracle Identity and Security best practice deployments or the newest Oracle Identity 11g features for OAM, OIM, OAAM, OID or OVD give us a post via derek@nulli.com and we'll be certain to track each other down to discuss these topics and others over a beverage or two.
Otherwise we hope to see many of our clients on Monday night at 6PM at the TownHall Restaurant for a few drinks and finger food!
The session load can have interesting content based on either customers providing insightful case studies or Oracle product engineers giving product deployment tips. The latter are rather difficult to find and are really a treat you when you come across them. The majority of sessions in the past tend to have a very heavy marketing slant to them or a high-level product overview with few details to assist existing customers on best practices or deployment tips.
We are hoping that this year, as in the past, we will spend most of our time networking with Oracle clients to get insights into their experiences and to spend one-on-one time with Oracle Product Managers or Product developers. This combined with Partner meetings sponsored by Oracle to bring product specialist partners together for networking and relationship development will keep us very busy indeed.
If you are at the conference, and would like to discuss Oracle Identity and Security best practice deployments or the newest Oracle Identity 11g features for OAM, OIM, OAAM, OID or OVD give us a post via derek@nulli.com and we'll be certain to track each other down to discuss these topics and others over a beverage or two.
Otherwise we hope to see many of our clients on Monday night at 6PM at the TownHall Restaurant for a few drinks and finger food!
Monday, January 4, 2010
Oracle Gold Partner - Security and Identity
Oracle has designated Nulli Secundus as an Oracle Gold Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized Program. Nulli having achieved Pillar Partner - Security and Identity status is now being recognized as a Gold level partner for our implementation services excellence for the Oracle Access Manager, Identity Manager, Internet Directory, Virtual Directory and the Oracle suite of identity products including the Oracle Entitlement Server.
Nulli Secundus is the leader in Identity Management possessing an exceptional record of success with assisting customers deploying their identity solutions. Nulli Secundus differentiates itself by leveraging the lessons learned with enhanced expertise into a series of implementation best practices and time saving quality enhancing Administration and Deployment tools available only to our clients.
We invite you to contact us to determine how Nulli Secundus can speed your Identity Management deployments and reduce costs associated with the implementation and on-going support of your identity systems and services
Nulli Secundus is the leader in Identity Management possessing an exceptional record of success with assisting customers deploying their identity solutions. Nulli Secundus differentiates itself by leveraging the lessons learned with enhanced expertise into a series of implementation best practices and time saving quality enhancing Administration and Deployment tools available only to our clients.
We invite you to contact us to determine how Nulli Secundus can speed your Identity Management deployments and reduce costs associated with the implementation and on-going support of your identity systems and services
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Oracle Pillar Partner Verification Designation for Nulli
Oracle has selected Nulli Secundus as part of an elite partner group designated to assist clients and prospects with evaluating and implementing Oracle Identity Management and Security solutions. Nulli Secundus is one of the first North American partners to receive the verification status and the only partner to hold this status for Identity Management and Security Oracle Pillar products in Western Canada and Western US region.
"Our consultants demonstrated their second-to-none knowledge of the Oracle Identity and Security products through their dedicated effort and time required to prepare for the verification process", said Derek Small, Nulli Secundus founder. "The Oracle Pillar Partner designation is a great honour and recognition by Oracle of Nulli's success with the implementation of Oracle Identity and Security solutions for our mutual clients. We are eager to extend our service offerings to support the Oracle sales team and their customers with Identity Management strategic road maps, business cases, project planning and implementations."
Nulli Secundus' consultants leverage their collective experience and expertise with the Oracle Identity products of OID, OIM, OFS, OVD and OAAM to provide our client's strategic identity and Peoplesoft project expertise.
"Our consultants demonstrated their second-to-none knowledge of the Oracle Identity and Security products through their dedicated effort and time required to prepare for the verification process", said Derek Small, Nulli Secundus founder. "The Oracle Pillar Partner designation is a great honour and recognition by Oracle of Nulli's success with the implementation of Oracle Identity and Security solutions for our mutual clients. We are eager to extend our service offerings to support the Oracle sales team and their customers with Identity Management strategic road maps, business cases, project planning and implementations."
Nulli Secundus' consultants leverage their collective experience and expertise with the Oracle Identity products of OID, OIM, OFS, OVD and OAAM to provide our client's strategic identity and Peoplesoft project expertise.
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