William Bathurst

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)

Extending Identity Management Solutions Into a SOA

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)

Identity Propagation in a SOA

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)