Sekhar Sarukkai

The mainstreaming of SOAs requires a more general approach to the notion of identities - beyond simply central management of people identities and into the realm of managing applications, devices, and other identities that represent entities that are first-class participants in this application network while also providing this as a pluggable service into the larger enterprise SOA. Enterprises should view identity as a service that is ubiquitously available and is a shared infrastructure service necessary for application networking, rather than as being managed by a server, such as an Authentication or Access server. While it makes architectural sense to consider an Identity service, there are business and related drivers that may force the need to deploy such an architecture.     The mainstreaming of SOAs requires a more general approach to the notion of identit... (more)

Identity-Based Service-Oriented Architecture

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) have become the de facto architecture of choice for enabling agile business processes via reuseable, coarse-grained business services. Business services are integrated via exposed technical interfaces that increasingly support Web services and XML standards. By adopting the loosely coupled business service model, IT is better able to support the evolving business needs of customers, partners, and employees, who access these services over multiple channels such as browsers, devices, or other applications. In order to truly realize the promise ... (more)