Companies are under tremendous pressure to meet the complex business
requirements found in their IT infrastructures.
For example, they need to expose their applications to external trading
partners, comply with government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley,
integrate merged companies or their own complex application environments. One
common solution path that helps solve these problems is to adopt a Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA), which allows companies to be more agile in
meeting their business needs.
When a company begins to expose their business processes in a SOA, then they
will need to ask how they will control access to their services. These
interactions can be complex, since SOAs can be composed of many composite
applications. These interactions can also be ... (more)
Companies are under tremendous pressure to meet the complex business
requirements found in their IT infrastructures.
For example, they need to expose their applications to external trading
partners, comply with government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley,
integrate merged companies or their own complex application environments. One
common solution path that helps solve these problems is... (more)
One of the challenges IT organizations face is how to propagate identities in
complex business processes that are commonly found in Service Oriented
Architectures (SOAs). Identities, which are passed from one service
invocation to the next in a business process, give the process a user
context. Identities can be used to determine access rights to SOA services
and for audit and compliance... (more)