[Concordia] Proposed agenda for 29 Jul 2008 Concordia communitycall

[McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)]

> Do vendors (e.g. Oracle, IBM, HP, CA, RSA, PingIdentity) have any  
> interest in helping their customers network with each other in order  
> to form federated relationships? It is way too easy to pull out the  
> top-down card and state that federation is a business problem. If we  
> were to reflect on the entire ecosystem, we would ourselves agree  
> that there are lots of opportunities to federate yet it doesn't  
> happen because the right conversations aren't happening.
>
> Do we believe that every enterprise should take the Wal-Mart RFID  
> approach where they mandate federation on their partners or should  
> vendors who know many players help at least seed the conversation.  
> For example, I doubt that there is a single insurance company that  
> doesn't have any IBM relationship. Within the insurance vertical,  
> there are independent insurance agents who do business with a  
> variety of carriers but otherwise aren't business-savvy enough to  
> know that federation is a solution but can clearly articulate the  
> problems they face, all of which federation can solve. Imagine if  
> IBM or some other vendor figured out how to simply get all the  
> customers in the same industry vertical talking to each other. This  
> could drive even more license sales of federation products and is a  
> better approach than just sitting around waiting for us customers to  
> figure it out ourselves.
>
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