The value of your portal lies in delivering a rich and secure experience across multiple applications. The more information you provide, the more valuable your portal is to stakeholders across your organization. Unfortunately, integrating all these applications securely has a high price, involving complex deployments and costly consultants. In fact, enterprises routinely spend 50% of [...]

No portal is an island—or at least, it shouldn’t be. Unfortunately, while SharePoint is great for sharing documents, it doesn’t integrate easily with the rest of your enterprise, including non-Microsoft applications and data sources. To be truly useful, your portal needs to bring together all your users and connect to all your applications. Whether you’re [...]

Whether you’re delivering new services and applications, switching current offerings across new segments of customers and employees, or dealing with mergers and acquisitions, new demands are constant in an ever-changing business environment. But our current systems of customized and inflexible identity sources, each with its own representation of identities, make it difficult to securely deliver [...]

Evolving an enterprise portal and keeping it secure is a thorny issue for most companies. When first deployed, most corporate portals work smoothly and securely, just as they were designed; but changes are inevitable—and managing these changes can be highly complex and extremely expensive. These issues are not a result of the tools used to [...]

Delivering smarter security and more customized services are at the top of any IT agenda. But while these goals may appear quite different from a business and technical perspective, they share a lot under the surface. In fact, both would be easier—and cheaper—to achieve with a common infrastructure—what we call an identity and context service. [...]

Microsoft Active Directory is an established NOS directory technology and most enterprises have made significant investments in their AD infrastructure. Many of these enterprises are now looking to further improve the user experience, reduce redundancy, and increase simplicity of directory management, by re-using the information currently stored in AD for new initiatives and applications. In [...]

The world of IT and security is changing. We’re moving from highly centralized infrastructures to a more federated approach, where relationships are loosely coupled, identities are scattered across systems, and we all live and work in the cloud. But such a move has exposed weaknesses in our IT systems—and prevented us from taking full advantage [...]