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Gartner Post-Symposium Thoughts

by Earl Perkins  |  October 23, 2009  |  2 Comments

Many Gartner analysts (including myself) just returned from our U.S. Symposium event in Orlando, Florida this week. As this was my first Symposium as a Gartner analyst, it was both a new experience and an old one. It was new in the sense of scale and audience type, it was old in the sense that [...]

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The Continuing Problem Of IAM Business Justifications

by Earl Perkins  |  October 14, 2009  |  6 Comments

I recently completed some interactions with clients who asked the same particular question regarding identity & access management. In one form or another, it can be paraphrased as “are there any business justifications for IAM that we can use as a starting point for developing our own?” Related questions centered around drivers and benefits, communicating the [...]

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