The Impact of ILM

Opinion – Identity Management is a set of business processes and a supporting infrastructure for the creation, maintenance and use of digital identities.
Inherent IdM is after service based IdM? Whats Inherent IdM? Its the entire IDM Business Suite.
Card Spaces (CardSpace, OpenID, etc) is coming soon. How soon? Gerry says 18 mos. Pam Dingle says 3-4 years. I believe Pam. No offense Gerry but I'm not talking about nascent efforts, I'm talking a mature, ready for the business technology.
User Provisioning:
“Integrated set of tools for managing life cycle of user entitlements”
Components: Workflows, administrative tool integration, password management, rule based processing, auditing and logging, connectivity to AD/LDAP/etc and Identity Repository.
Leaders of IdM: CA, IBM, Oracle are tops
Microsoft and Novell make quite a few claims but they cant back it up. Workflow is the gating factor to these two vendors being in the top end. Business drivers, process improvement will happen this year. Really? no proof of that....this is a bad version of what I saw at the Gartner Conference. Ah...he's suggesting that virtualization of the IdM tools will have this effect, he's not suggesting we're re-engineering business processes yet. Any implementation experience is a multi-year engagement .
Standards
SPML v2 limited adoption, more important to Federation
BPEL Oracle and Intalio are the only two vendors, only important as Oracle is pushing it. He views this as a workflow engine for business rules, Sun may support BPEL over time. What about BPM?
Trends – Vendors still in acquisition mode. Vendors will start to work on early adopters to smooth experience for mainstream users over time. (2-3 yrs) **WAY TOO MUCH TIME on IdM deep dive. Get to the ILM bashing MAN!**
Ahh....now to ILM (a potentially disruptive technology) Microsoft has been slow – no workflow, no user interface capabilities, etc. Good metadirectory and data synchronization technology. ILM2 will be Microsoft's FIRST move into real IdM. Workflow, Web Services API (but no SPML Support) Any impact? NONE. Role management Bridgestream, BHOLD, Eurekify, Omada, Vaau. Roll your own: Courion and Voelcker, Oracle will likely acquire some of these small vendors
Enterprise Access Control Management – Logical applicationss like Approva, SAP/Virsa. Provisioning lacks awareness within ERP Stack. It checks with EACM policy engine before provisioning. Auditing tools are also big as well.
Conclusions: ILM going different direction than the rest of the UP market. ILM will be heavily partner reliant, MSFT is in this long term, don't expect them to be chased out of the market. This is a rehash of things I already knew with Gartner