Mycroft

Forrester April 2, 2008 Identity-As-A-Service

Among others, IAM integrator leaders like Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the boutique firm Mycroft Talisen offer standard prebuilt building blocks using leading IAM software. Instead of custom developing to the requirements of, typically, SMBs, these SIs offer an a la carte selection of 15 to 50 business processes that: 1) map to 80% of typical business processes; 2) standardize user management processes; and 3) are prebuilt using major IAM suites. Some aspects of these modular offerings are available as service provisioning markup language (SPML) or Web services.

Forrester Feb 6, 2008 Identity Management Market Forecast: 2007 to 2014

Outsourced identity management. When regulatory requirements force them to adopt identity management, small and medium-size businesses — and even smaller enterprises — may not possess all of the resources to implement all aspects of it in-house. This explains the rise of outsourced identity management, which Forrester expects to reach maturity in 2009 to 2010. Compuware/Covisint, Mycroft/Talisen, Oracle/Wipro, and SAFE-BioPharma offer the outsourcing of identity management and, in some cases, the establishment of networks of trust. We expect to see more industry-specific offerings in this space, allowing server message blocks to convert capital IAM expenses into recurring operating expenses.