Last night was the first meeting of the Chicago-Area Identity Management User Group. Sun hosted the meeting in their Itasca, IL office. The user group is focused on sharing knowledge and experiences related to; Identity Manager, Access Manager, Directory Server and RBACx
The attendees included the Sun identity team, partners (Laurus Technologies, Deliotte) and customers (Kraft, Motorola, Hewitt). Meeting agenda:
- User Group vision/strategy
- Sun: Identity Suite Roadmap
- Deloitte: Role Management for Enterprise (RM4E)
- User Group Next Steps
The user group raised / discussed the following items:
- More focus on managability with Identity Manager; upgrades, integration, debugging
- More "best practices" examples (whitepapers, templates, etc.) for Identity Manager
- How to leverage Identity Manager for SOX compliance
- Need Resource Kit (tools) for Identity Manager, like Directory Server
- Need to enhance the Directory Editor that part of the Directory Server
Agenda for the next meeting:
- Upgrading Identity Manager (Laurus Technologies)
- Getting more value out of Identity Manager (Deloitte)
- Identity Manager 8.0 Overview (Sun)
If you're interested in joining the user group, please send an email to: requestChicagoIdmLUG at Sun dot COM