Directory Integration: Metadirectory Revisited?

META Trend:Convergence and security concerns will drive enterprise directory services adoption (2002+), reinforcing the need for identity management (2002-04).

NOS upgrades, strong authentication, and higher demands for identity management will drive increasingly complex integration of multi-vendor/platform directory instances (2003+), resulting in more use of EAI-like integration “toolkits.”

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