Articles by William Bathurst

Extending Identity Management Solutions Into a SOA

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:30:00 EST

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.

Extending Identity Management Solutions Into a SOA

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:30:00 EDT

Identity Propagation in a SOA

Thu, 11 May 2006 10:00:00 EDT

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 purposes.