Contest for AD Admins

NetVision is running a contest for AD administrators. There's a relatively good chance to win $1000 if you can come up with a good caption for the cartoon provided. The idea here is simple. We're looking for some feedback and perspective from administrators. In exchange, we're giving away some cash. No tricks. Instead of paying for advertising that reaches the wrong audience half the time, we're paying the audience directly. Please pass it along to your AD admin friends.

Identity in the Cloud

Over the past year, there have been a number of identity management solutions popping up that aim to help companies deal with identities in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) / Cloud applications. Here's a list of the solutions that I've encountered:

Cloud Identity - SaaS Identity and Access Management solution. Provides provisioning, workflow, audit reporting, and SSO. Leverages existing enterprise credentials. [more info]

Conformity - SaaS Identity and Access Management solution. Provides provisioning, workflow, and audit reporting for select cloud applications. Leverages Active Directory (or other on-premise repository) accounts as the source. [more info]

Identropy IC2 - Identity Management solution for SaaS applications. Leverages existing Identity infrastructure and work flow to provision accounts to cloud applications via the IC2 SPML gateway. [more info]

MyOneLogin - SaaS Identity and Access Management solution. Provides SSO and Secure Logon to cloud applications and web sites. Enables Account Management for select SaaS applications. Tracks SaaS application usage across apps from a single location. [more info]

Nordic Edge Opacus - SaaS Identity and Access Management solution. Provides Secure Logon to cloud applications. Synchronizes accounts from on-premise repository to cloud systems. Enables delegated user administration for cloud applications. [more info]

PingConnect - SaaS SSO solution for Salesforce CRM, Google Apps, and 60+ other SaaS applications. Leverages existing enterprise credentials, Google Apps Logon ID, or Salesforce credentials. [more info]

SecurAct - SaaS Identity and Access Management solution. Provides provisioning, work flow, SSO, and audit reporting for both local and cloud applications. Leverages Active Directory accounts as the source. [more info]

Symplified - SaaS Identity and Access Management solution. Provides provisioning, audit reporting, authentication, and SSO across local and cloud apps. Leverages existing enterprise credentials. Can also prevent side-door access. [more info]

NOTE TO VENDORS - please feel free to reach out if my description above is incorrect. I'm happy to make corrections where appropriate or provide additional differentiators. I also encourage comments that help identify how products stand apart from the others by end-users or vendors.

[Updated Aug 04, 2009]
[Updated Jul 29, 2009]