(ex Digital identity links)

This is the end of this blog as an identity management blog... At least, I think so.

My current employer is "downsizing" and I was one of the firedaffected ones. In my new job, I'll do something else, in a different sector. It will be a techncal and administrative role, but still in the IT business. I think there will be just so much to learn and therefore so little time to keep up to date with all things Identity Management as well...

And time to blog about it, too, will be scarser. Anyway, I might resurrect this blog, but I doubt it will be about Identity Management in its next life.

In my next job, I'll be involved in software development, development processes and methods, software lifecycle management, team management and other related issues.

To anybody who reads this: good bye!
(for now)

I came across OpenWFE quite a while ago, and read about it because workflow can be an important part of identity management.

Workflow is about defining processes, setting up tasks, letting people manage identities, memberships in groups etc. OpenWFE seems very flexible foundation for all sorts of workflows. This is how the project presents itself at Sourceforge:

OpenWFE is an open source java workflow engine / environment. It is a complete Business Process Management suite, with 4 components : an engine, a worklist, a webclient and an 'apre' (Automatic Participant Runtime Environment).

It is set up woth lots of options to access it programmatically, through Java, Python or C# plus a REST-like web interface.
It's all at http://web.openwfe.org/display/openwfe/Home

Just to prevent the world from holding its breath waiting for new posts here :-): there wont be many (or any) posts from me during July, due to my holidays.

I'm off to beautiful Arendal & Svinør in the south of Norway and San Pedro de Alcantara in Spain.

[This is coming from my backlog of interesting links]
Jeff Jaffe, CTO of Novell, has his own blog. In a long post he writes about the redefinition of security, access management and identity management.

Have a read - it's an interesting article for everybody interested in identity management.

It seems like he's got a good habit of writing very long blog posts - quite unlike my own short notes, I'm afraid...

I work for Maxware - and I'm very happy to tell that we're currently giving away a light-version of our Data Synchronization Engine, DSE Lite at http://www.maxware.com/Products/dselite_download.html.


It is a very good offer: the DSE Lite is an easy-to-use, powerful and flexible product that does exactly what its name implies: it keeps data sources in sync. Which can be very useful... DSE Lite has very good scripting capabilites: you can write bespoke connectors or include complex business rules in the synchronization jobs using VBScript, JavaScript or Perl.

One typical scenario is keeping registered persons in key applications synchronized into a directory, which can be used for company-wide authenications.

There are some limitations in the DSE Lite, but it has a bigger brother, our full blown DSE. And if that isn't enough for your needs, we've got our Identity Center which adds provisioning, workflow and many more features. What we're saying with this offer is "look at us - we've got some great products - and we'll let you try for yourself for free" :-)

Note: everything I say in this blog are my own personal opinions, not those of my employer.