by Earl Perkins | August 28, 2009 | Comments Off
I’d like to introduce myself to the readers of the Gartner IAM Blog. I am Ray Wagner, the Managing Vice President for the Secure Business Enablement team at Gartner. Co-Chair Gregg Kreizman and I have just finished putting the final touches on the agenda for the fourth Gartner US Identity and Access Management Summit, [...]
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by Earl Perkins | August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
I thought a bit before writing this, but felt it was necessary to say some of these things due to the increase in inquiries about communicating the value of identity and access management. I suspect the increase is due to IAM moving more into mainstream adoption by mainstream customers rather than ‘pioneers’ that don’t often [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: IAM value
by Earl Perkins | August 23, 2009 | 6 Comments
Please accept my apologies for the long absence here on the IAM blog. I have been away for a while. I’d like to address a specific, frequent question that many Gartner clients ask us. It’s also a question that is asked often by the press as well. “When are you going to publish an IAM [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Magic Quadrant, MQ, suite
by Earl Perkins | August 11, 2009 | 4 Comments
First of all, let me apologize for the strange entry earlier today. I was attempting to do the infamous “claim blog” with a popular technical web site. On to more important things– recurring themes for the identity and access management roadmap going forward. Some of these themes are good marketing by some IAM vendors– other [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: GRC, IAM roadmap
by Earl Perkins | August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
A recent client request stirred some discussion among my colleagues. (Of course, being an analyst firm, that kind of thing happens a lot. If it happens frequently enough on a particular topic, we write about it.) This topic had to do with IAM metrics– what are those specific criteria that an ‘average’ company might use [...]
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by Earl Perkins | August 4, 2009 | Comments Off
When we first started talking about identity and access management long ago, it was a pretty exciting thing for analysts covering it– the tools to “do” IAM were brand new or just evolving, IAM issues were pressing and important to IT, and even to some areas of business as well. We sometimes got peripheral technologies [...]
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