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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 --- 43 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/orana/~3/329598084/openid-missing-spice-in-enterp
 I have been playing around with OpenID recently and considering its significance. OpenID offers a "single digital identity .. you can login to all your favourite websites", and its adoption is rapidly accelerating especially since services like Yahoo and Blogger have added OpenID support to the many millions of existing user accounts. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I am surprised by the lack of attention OpenID is getting in the enterprise context. And when it is considered, it is often as an either/or proposition. As Nishant Kaushik writes in his excellent identity blog: .. simple web applications with minimal needs could get away with simply supporting OpenID. But that should not be confused with not requiring a full-fledged identity services infrastructure where appropriate. I think this is somewhat misdirected; certainly not the whole story. OpenID-enabling existing applications for an external audience is already a trivial exercise. It's a simple API, and plugins or toolkits are available for most programming environments. I think the much bigger deal is looking at OpenID from the opposite perspective - using enterprise security infrastructure to support OpenID authentication. In my view, OpenID is key to unlocking the true potential of "Enterprise 2.0", which is what I wanted to discuss here to try and explain my thoughts and get some feedback. It may also lead us to think more clearly about what Enterprise 2.0 really is. T ... |
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