Posted by Victor Barris on Wed, Dec 02, 2009
Press Release
Little Ferry, NJ --- Frank Villavicencio, a known expert in the Identity & Access Management space, has joined Identropy as Executive Vice President to advance the definition and lead the execution of Identropy’s managed identity services solutions strategy and business model.
Identropy is known in the industry for its identity management consulting practice, which helps organizations create an identity management strategy and roadmap, deploy effective solutions, as well as its innovative offerings such as iMIS and IC2, which streamline the adoption of identity management solutions and mitigate their operational risks once deployed. “The addition of Frank Villavicencio, represents a significant milestone in the evolution of our existing offerings, as we gear to turn them into game-changing approaches towards deploying identity management solutions”, states Victor Barris, Identropy's CEO. “Our insights in the marketplace, validated by our many clients, have given us evidence that we are at the brink of a significant transformation in the Identity & Access Management space, as clients continue to move away from the traditional, enterprise deployment models”.
“I am thrilled with the opportunity to lead this important area of Identropy’s business strategy”, says Frank Villavicencio. “This disruptive innovation signals the shift to a new paradigm in identity management after a decade of incremental evolution, and I am glad to be joining an organization that embraces and is poised to capitalize on this change. The adoption of managed service models, combined with Agile delivery methodology, and a focus on risk mitigation including operational risks, will immediately translate to shorter time-to-value for organizations, enabling them to truly take advantage of identity-enabled processes in a reliable, cost-effective and measurable way”. This is the focus of Identropy’s Managed Identity Services strategy.
Frank has more than 14 years of experience in Internet Security and Identity Management, spanning consulting, large implementations, business development, sales, product management and the invention of two awarded patents in the area of web access management, as well as published papers and public speaking engagements. He is the Chair of Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Work Group, which is responsible for the Identity Assurance Framework (IAF), an industry standard for measuring and conveying identity assurance within digital identities. He has been part of Citigroup’s Managed Identity Services Product Management team, focusing on strategic partnership and business development programs at a global level. Prior to Citigroup, Frank worked at Oblix, Inc. and later at Oracle Corporation, after Oracle’s acquisition of Oblix. Frank has gained an international reputation for his exceptional leadership abilities and proficiency in the identity management space.
Posted by Adrian Rodriguez on Fri, Apr 24, 2009
I promised myself that I wouldn't write about the acquisition of SUN by Oracle but after reading all of the different blog posts that I read including Matt Pollicove's IdM Thoughtplace and Jackson Shaw's blogs...amongst others and what I read is that it could take months before this even affects the identity management product but here's my take on Oracle and where things could end up.
1.The best companies become even greater by the decisions that they make. Kind of reminds me of teams like the Raiders and Lions on NFL Draft Day...they draft pretty high every year but they just can't make those amazing picks turn into anything substantial and teams like New England give up early picks and just make good decisions. Talk about getting a deal...oops...I mean a steal. For the average person $7.4 Billion sounds like a ton of money but thinking that Larry Ellison feels he will squeeze $1.5 Billion in profit out of that acquisition this year and $2 Billion out of it next year shows that this was not just a knee jerk reaction to IBM wanting to make this same purchase.
2. 2008 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Provisioning
Gartner's 2008 Magic Quadrant showed that SUN and Oracle were tops in the provisioning space. This acquisition would leave Oracle firmly placed at the top with IBM Tivoli.
3. According the 2008 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report, Oracle had 11.9% of the market share and SUN had 11.8%. The closest competitor, CA, had 14.6% market share which was also down 6.3% from 2006. Viewing this simplistically, we can say that Oracle now has almost 24% of the Provisioning market.
4. Can the many new advancements in the SUN product such as tying their identity software to Google Apps Premier and Amazon's Cloud platform save them? Actually I feel that Oracle instantly becomes a leader in the cloud computing space. It may take the need to make SUN/Oracle's Cloud Computing Platform less open source and back it up with Oracle's Database versus MySQL to take it to the Enterprise level.
There are many more reasons that this acquisition could make Oracle a winner such as OID/LDAP, JAVA and others.
Whats your take?