Don Bowen

Three men are discussing what they want others to say at their funerals. The first says, “I want people to remember that I was someone who always gave my all.” The second says, “I want people to remember that my life was centered around my family.” The third says, “I want them to say…HE’S MOVING!” [...]

Evolving the Identity Services architecture

The last 3 months or so has been really good to my work defining our vision for Identity Services. I’ve gotten valuable input from my colleagues in the IdM business, and my participation in Project Fusion and Burton’s Identity Services Working Group has helped crystallize some key aspects of the architecture. Below is the latest [...]

The fun never stops in Identity World

Boy, it was an exhausting September. There was a lot going on between work, Digital ID World, Oracle OpenWorld and the Burton Identity Services Working Group. Unfortunately, this left me little time to write on this blog. But hopefully all of you were able to follow my real-time thoughts on Twitter. If you are interested, [...]

Talking Identity Services at OpenWorld

I was hoping to find some time to dig a little deeper into some of the themes, conversations and ideas that were floating around the halls at DIDW last week. Unfortunately, time was not a luxury I had this week. I am writing this aboard a flight to San Francisco, as I head there to [...]

Got Jello? (Shots ;-)

It’s Thursday July 30. You’re in San Diego attending Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference. You’re enjoying the sessions, learning a lot, etc. etc. But what ‘s really on your mind is which vendor hospitality suite are you going to tonight So let me help you answer that so you can focus on the sessions, the don’t [...]

Don Bowen

Three men are discussing what they want others to say at their funerals. The first says, “I want people to remember that I was someone who always gave my all.” The second says, “I want people to remember that my life was centered around my family.” The third says, “I want them to say…HE’S MOVING!” [...]

Oracle Recognizes Customers with First Annual Identity Management Innovation Awards

Oracle Press Release Oracle Recognizes Customers with First Annual Identity Management Innovation Awards Cisco and Visa Take Top Honors for Their Identity and Access Management Initiatives Redwood Shores, Calif, July 30, 2009 News Facts Recognizing outstanding identity and access management initiatives, Oracle announced that customers Cisco and Visa are the recipients of its first annual [...]

SOA Still Alive and Well–Sell it to the Business

In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that “SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!”. In her posting, she states – Service-orientation is a prerequisite for rapid integration of data and business processes; it [...]

SOA is alive and well no matter what its called

A recent posting by Anne Thomas Manes of The Burton Group — Has declared “SOA is Dead”, yet “long live service-orientation”. This has sparked quite a flurry in the blogosphere, on the Yahoo!Groups Service-orientated-architecture discussion group, and on SOASocial Miko Matsumura has now labeled it “The Architecture Formerly Known as SOA” in his post “SOA [...]