Monday, 3 March 2008

Adoption and State of the Federation Market

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I was recently asked to participate in a Burton Group podcast with Sun and Covisint on the 'Adoption and State of the Federation Market'. Gerry Gebel did a great job moderating the discussion. The synopsis is below. I think you will find its a worthwhile 20 minute listen.

"In January 2008, Burton Group published a report evaluating products in the Federation technology market. Federation is an important tool for deploying cross-domain sign-on and access solutions. With more than a dozen products on the market today, information technology (IT) architects have no shortage of options. Because large organizations require a tiered model for federation, few will be able to settle on a single federation server or hosted provider for all their federation needs. Most organizations will deploy a mix of general-purpose, application-specific, and open source technologies to round out federated identity.
In this Burton Group Tech Watch podcast, Gerry Gebel moderates a discussion on the adoption and state of the federation market with providers: Ping Identity, Covisint and Sun."