A little more than a year ago, the industry was surprised to hear that Oracle planned to acquire Sun Microsystems. Immediately, Sun customers began to wonder about the future of their existing IdM investments. It took another several months for the acquisition to be finalized, and then even more before […]

For some time, I’ve been watching Oracle’s marketing machine tout the impending arrival of Oracle Identity Manager 11g- a reportedly « revolutionary » suite of IdM products. I saw the OIM 11g announcement this morning and spent more than a few minutes digesting its contents. I have to admit that I was […]

A few weeks ago, I was out on the West Coast talking to companies about privileged user management and identity governance with our technology partner, Cyber-Ark. This is an area of real concern for lots of organizations – and rightfully so. During our meetings, we exchanged real-world « horror stories » about […]

Our CTO Darran Rolls recently focused on the fact that traditional provisioning solutions took a « bottom-up, connector-focused » approach as opposed to a « top-down governance model » approach (« The Value of Taking a Governance-based Approach to Provisioning« ). The net result being that many provisioning projects failed to deliver on their value proposition […]

In case you missed it, SailPoint recently announced a new provisioning solution based on identity governance. I believe this announcement not only signaled a fundamental change in approach from « old school » provisioning systems, but also sent a much needed life preserver to companies struggling with a provisioning quagmire. I know […]

Last week’s oil spill has me thinking about how – and when – government regulation is the ideal path to mandate corporate governance. Specifically in the IdM space, I’ve watched government regulations evolve to address transparency, privacy and consumer data protection. As I look back at what’s happened, it’s apparent […]

I read a very interesting Forrester report last week commissioned by Microsoft and RSA. It was based on a survey of 305 IT security decision makers and assesses data security practices at enterprises around the world. A key takeaway from the report is the fact that compliance, not security, drives […]

This morning, we announced a next generation provisioning product that builds on the governance framework provided by our core product, IdentityIQ. The announcement is a culmination of almost two years’ work internally at SailPoint, and we believe it represents an evolutionary shift in the provisioning market that will benefit any […]

As I sit here, winging my way back to Austin from the Gartner IAM Summit last week in London, I can’t help but reflect on how much the identity market has evolved since SailPoint attended the first European IAM Summit in 2008. In addition to the fact that the attendees […]

This week, several members of the SailPoint team made the annual trek to the industry’s biggest security event, the RSA Conference. As always, the conference was a high-paced mix of conference sessions, technology debates, and meetings with customers and partners. I’m always interested in what themes get the most play […]