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Jan
10
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We're co-hosting a webinar later today with Anne Thomas Manes from Burton and Web Services pioneer Toufic Boubez from Layer7 Technologies. Here's what you'll learn :
- The connection between identity management and SOA governance
- The importance of separating policy and entitlements from service implementation
- The challenges of managing and validating identity in SOA interactions
- Options for managing and enforcing identity-driven SOA policies
- How to implement identity-based governance in real-world SOA
The number of registrations is already very high so sign-up here. See you there.
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Nov
6
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Against my own previous advice on not traveling during the winter - I'll be traveling over the next couple of weeks.
Later this week I'll be in New York talking about Security and Identity in SOAs at the InfoWorld SOA Exec. Forum (the session is on Thursday @ 12.10pm). It's been several months since my last (extended) stay in New York and I must admit I'm looking forward to it; though I'm not going to have much time to look around - my schedule is pretty packed.
As soon as I get back on Thursday - I'm meeting Superpat at RedHat's HQ in Raleigh for his talk on digital identity at TriLUG; then we're being joined by the rest of his family on Friday.
Next week I'll be at ApacheCon in Atlanta for some meetings and will likely attend some of the more business-oriented tracks; and obviously Dave's talk on Apache Roller. Looks like there are a lot of fellow Sunnies there - should be a good opportunity to put some faces to email addresses.
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Jan
11
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In a previous blog entry, James McGovern asks me to "describe the difference between regular BPM and integration centric BPM". So here goes.
First a caveat - many of these terms are devised by analysts as a way to categorize products in order that they can perform a reasonable comparison. IMO the names don't define the products and nor do they always accurately reflect the customer's problem space. And I'm not convinced that constantly changing these industry taxonomies benefits society (and it's not like there's only one taxonomy) . But I'm speaking as a vendor - maybe real customers see it differently.
I think what James means by "regular BPM" is the pure play BPM products like FileNet (IBM), Savvion, Fuego (BEA), Intalio and Lombardi - these pure-play vendors are mostly about human-to-human integration vs. the system-to-system integration (EAI / B2B) suites offered by Sun, IBM, Oracle, Tibco, etc. To some extent this distinction goes back to the genesis of this industry - when EAI and Document Workflow were pretty distinct - one being an IT solution the other being a business solution. So IC-BPM products will have a lot more focus on data transformation, protocol support, event management, security and a strong, integrated developer story; whereas HC-BPM would be a lot more focussed on things like human collaboration, resource assigment, etc. Of course there's a lot of overlap.
If that explanation doesn't help much, here's an excellent 8-part history of this whole space written by Sandy Kemsley on ebizQ and some additional insight on the subject from Phil Gilbert.
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Jan
10
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We (Sun) seem to be on a roll this year with launches, announcements and awards (and we're only 6 days in). And as of today the stock is at a 4-year high. One accolade that I've been waiting to blog is that Forrester has just ranked Sun as a leader in Inetgration-Centric BPM Suites (IC-BPMS). Sun's entry into that market came as a result of the SeeBeyond Acquisition a couple of years ago and subsequent integration of that technology into our existing software portfolio (such as Portal and Application Server).
Combined with our leadership in Identity Management and Web Services - this is a great platform on which to build our "Middleware 2.0" business.
It's great to be able to blog about something work-related for a change - hopefuly I'll be able to do more of that this year.
I think it's going to be a fun year.
