Recently in Identity Management Category

Courtesy of InternetNews on Tuesday I learned that IBM has added support for OpenID, Windows CardSpace and Eclipse's Higgins Identity Framework to its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (FIM) offering. As one of the enterprise identity management heavyweights, IBM's announcement is... Read More..

... you're waiting for an identity management acquisition and then along come three at once. This time it's IBM which has acquired 40-person, privately-held Encentuate. If you think that Ecentuate's size is indicative of gap-filling motivations from IBM then you'd... Read More..

Hot on the heels of last week's acquisition of Credentica by Microsoft, Ping Identity (who I covered here in an On The Radar report) announced yesterday that it has acquired the Sxip Access business unit from Sxip Identity. Sxip was... Read More..

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Canadian cryptography specialist Credentica. This news sees Microsoft reverting back to its more traditional approach of acquiring small (Credentica is a team of three) specialist technology vendors to plug very specific gaps. In... Read More..

Perhaps it's because we're in the run up to the holiday season or because the press release came from the UK that accounts for the lack of commentary on the announcement that Experian has developed a CardSpace proof of concept... Read More..

Back in September Oracle announced that it had acquired privately-held Enterprise Role Management (ERM) player Bridgestream continuing its "identity management-through-acquisition" strategy. With many eyes focused on the company's Oracle Open World shindig this week, Sun also entered the fray with... Read More..

Ben Laurie of The Bunker Secure Hosting has a provocative post about the two emerging (and that's important) leaders in user-centric identity: OpenID and CardSpace. He quite rightly points out that at present OpenID's: popularity is entirely on the provider... Read More..

Microsoft agrees to participate in ID project ... For the first time representatives of Liberty Alliance and Microsoft are going to sit down together ... Microsoft is to meet this month with vendors and organisations that are backing several different... Read More..

It's perhaps unsurprising, given all the brouhaha surrounding Microsoft's claims that open source software infringes on 235 of its patents (which incidentally I take to be largely 'sabre rattling' from Redmond in the face of the implications of the GPLv3... Read More..

Well, better late than never. SAP today announced the acquisition of privately-held MaXware, a supplier of identity management infrastructure. Back in June 2005, I discussed SAP Venture's (its VC arm) investment in another identity management specialist: Ping Identity and at... Read More..