Concordia meeting at Catalyst

Blogger: Gerry Gebel

We played host to the latest Concordia meeting earlier this week at Catalyst. It's been so busy, I'm just now getting around to posting a few comments. Others have published some excellent observations here, here, and here.

At the meeting, end user organizations (AOL, Boeing, GM, Gov of British Columbia, and GSA) described usage scenarios, highlighted key requirements, and offered sage advice to the standards development and IdM product communities. What a concept - injecting real user requirements into the standards process! Let's just say that more interaction is needed between producers of standards and products - and the organizations that buy and deploy them. There was a lot of commonality of requirements between the presenting organizations that remain inadequately addressed. You can see these requirements posted here.

Thanks to the Concordia team for holding their meeting at Catalyst, it surely enriched the conference.

Comments

[James]

Do industry analysts have a duty to promote the adoption of standards they cover? For example, can Burton Group encourage vendors in the CRM space such as Siebel to implement SPML and XACML PEP?

[Gerry]

James: we do advocate for our enterprise clients and highlighted the need for standards-based PEPs last week at Catalyst.

[Gerry]

James: we do advocate for our enterprise clients and highlighted the need for standards-based PEPs last week at Catalyst.