Companies Demonstrate Interoperability of SPML OASIS Standard
June 19, 2006
Six international companies worked together to demonstrate interoperability of version 2.0 of the Service Provisioning Mark-up Language (SPML) at the Burton Catalyst 06 conference.
SPML is an Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) standard that lets companies manage the provisioning and allocation of identity information and system resources within and between organizations. It was developed by the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee.
The companies that participated included:
- BMC Software.
- Computer Associates.
- Citrix.
- Oracle.
- Sun Microsystems.
- Hewlett-Packard.
"The SPML OASIS InterOp … is a milestone in the development of a standards-based approach for the management of user identities across heterogeneous applications," said Mark Diodati, analyst for Burton Group's Identity and Privacy Strategies. "Products that leverage SPML can help organizations provide user access to resources without custom provisioning connectors."
The Catalyst demonstration scenarios involved a group of companies that outsource various services to application service providers (ASPs). Each ASP publishes a SPML interface for provisioning accounts. Each company uses a SPML client that makes provisioning requests to the ASPs as needed. The roles of company and ASP are interchangeable among all six InterOp participants.
Source: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).