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PSM Updates for Identity Suite - SAP S4 HANA as a managed Identity Manager and Identity Governance endpoint

By Itamar Budin
Hi In our continues effort to allow our customers to be able to use our products on the latest platforms, we are pleased to announce to we are now supporting SAP S/4 HANA as a Identity Manager and Identity Governance connector. Notes: That this certification is only relevant for customers who are running versions 14.2 and 14.3 of our solutions. Covers AS ABAP type servers In the Identity Manager User Console, the SAP NetWeaver (R/3) endpoint type represents the SAP HANA(S/4) endpoint. Platform support matrix link: Identity Manager 14.3:  http://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/layer7-identity-and-access-management/identity-manager/14-3/platform-support-matrix/connectors-and-endpoint-types.html ...
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BETA invetation for the new CABI (Jasper) Report server 7.1.1

By Itamar Budin
  Hi We are proud to announce that we are now accepting users to our Layer7 Identity Suite CABI 7.1.1 program for customers who are running our solutions (Identity Manager and Identity Governance) on versions 14.2 and 14.3. This BETA will allow you to install and configure this new versions of CABI 7.1.1 on your system and then connect your existing IM/IG 14.2/14.3 solution to it. How to join? Please click on the following URL to automatic register to our validation site: https://validate.broadcom.com/key/IdentitySuiteCABI711BETA   Why this program is being hosted on validate.broadcom.com? Hosting this validation on ...
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Introducing the Next Generation of Layer7 API Management

By Bill Oakes
In Q4, Broadcom will roll out the next generation of two of the key components of the award winning Layer7 API Management: API Gateway v10, and API Developer Portal v4.4. On Tuesday, December 3rd, at 9am PST, the Layer7 Product Management team is going to tell you all about it!  We'll start with a brief overview of full lifecycle API management and why it's a crucial component of any API strategy, and then introduces the product management team behind the API Gateway and API Developer Portal - when they'll discuss the up-to-date feature set enabling - a modern API Developer Experience, multi-cloud and broad platform support, and operational excellence in achievening ...
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Projects-to-Products: The Buyer's Journey

By Brian Nathanson
Before we move on, there's one more marketing (or sales) model that I think makes sense to consider as a Product Manager. In 1910, John Dewey introduced the concept of the buyer's decision process -- the mental/psychological steps that a person goes through when deciding what products to purchase and use. Over the years, the concept has been popularized under the phrase the "buyer's journey" My favorite version of the buyer's journey is broken into 6 key steps or phases. (Some models have more or less; feel free to let me know if you prefer a different breakout.) Awareness -- Exactly what it sounds like. The buyer becomes aware that a particular product ...
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General availability of the Identity Suite 14.3 CP1 (Cumulative Patch) and Jboss/WildFly Migration utility

By Itamar Budin
Hi All, The Layer7 Identity Suite team are proud to announce the general availability the Identity Suite v 14.3 Cumulative Patch (CP) 1 (Identity Manager,  Identity Portal  and  Identity Governance) and JBoss 7.2 and WildFly 15 Migration Utility.  Notes: The JBoss 7.2 and WildFly 15 migration utility is also available for customers who are running version 14.2 This utility is only for customers who are running a non-vApp (Standalone) solution. A vApp upgrade will be evaluate at a later time. Installer support for JBoss 7.2 and WildFly 15 will be available in our next major release. This release contains around  100 customer ...
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Projects-to-Products: The Innovator's Dilemma

By Brian Nathanson
So if we build on my previous two posts about Crossing the Chasm ( here and here ), you might take away that the vast majority of customers prefer incremental changes that preserve the existing value they have -- adding new value only inasmuch as it remains non-disruptive. This leads me to the second product marketing model that I find valuable: The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. Again, paraphrasing ruthlessly (with apologies to the author), what makes your product successful up until today may doom it in the future because sustaining innovations -- smaller incremental improvements in a previous model -- are almost always overwhelmed eventually ...
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Projects-to-Products: Crossing the Chasm Pt 2

By Brian Nathanson
In my last post , I introduced the concept of Geoffrey Moore's Technology Adoption Life Cycle as outlined in his book Crossing the Chasm . Here I will discuss the actual "chasm" -- and why it is an important concept for technology product managers to understand. Moore's research found that once you get past your Innovators and Early Adopters -- which are about 1/4 to 1/3 of all potential customers combined -- there is a significant drop off in adoption rate. Paraphrasing liberally (and if you disagree with my interpretation, please let me know in the comments), the psychological drivers for the Early Majority are significantly different than for Early Adopters ...
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Projects-to-Products: Crossing the Chasm Pt 1

By Brian Nathanson
The first popular product marketing model comes from Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore. I will be ruthlessly paraphrasing Moore's conclusions here for the sake of time and space, but I highly recommend reading both this work and his follow up, Inside the Tornado , if you want a keen understanding of what causes many startup products to succeed or fail. Luckily, many of you reading this post will not be trying to startup a new business entirely from scratch. Instead, you will be attempting to define or expand a product model within your (large) organization. So why the reference to Crossing the Chasm? Simply put, Moore identified through extensive research ...
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Projects-to-Products: A Clarification about Product Marketing

By Brian Nathanson
Before I jump into the models I promised, I felt like I should quickly clarify something because -- when you bring up the topic of marketing -- many tech people's brains immediately begin thinking of tradeshow booths and cool swag (or similar fun & games as immortalized in this Dilbert comic strip ) rather than the steps in the product management process. Event marketing is the most visible type of marketing, which is also why (I believe) that people in technology most associate marketing with what they see during large events -- colorful booths with demo/discussion stations and giveaways that compete for your attention. This type of marketing works well ...
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Expand Service Virtualization Across the Enterprise

By Jeffrey Hughes
It’s crunch time and you’ve only got a few hours to test a new payment feature added to your massively successful retail web site. Any mistake could be catastrophic for the company’s revenues…and your job. You know you need to test this functionality prior to launch and yet you dread having to build a new virtual service to test this feature. If only someone else had previously created a service to test this functionality. If only there were a catalog to view and select a service from a list of pre-built services. If only there were a central location where services could be uploaded and shared across all our teams! I could review the pre-built services, see ...
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Webcast: From Project to Product (Nov. 21)

By Alf Abuhajleh
RSVP HERE From Projects to Products: A new way to manage business outcomes Under pressure by disruptive competitors and discerning customers, more companies are focused on delivering tangible business outcomes. To effectively manage business outcomes, organizations need to transition from traditional project management to product-based funding and delivery. Indeed, 85% of businesses have already adopted, or plan to adopt, a digital product-centric delivery model, according to Gartner. Join Clarity PPM product manager @Brian Nathanson for a 30-minute primer on Digital Product Management. RSVP HERE   ​
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OpenID Connect Flow: Have you made the right choice of flow for your application?

By Madhusudhan Yoganath
As more and more digital business initiatives emerge, which require applications and data to be accessed by those outside the corporate perimeter, the adoption of federation technologies has risen dramatically. Among these technologies, OpenID Connect is starting to take more relevance as a modern framework of flows, which enables clients of all types, including Web-based, mobile, and JavaScript clients, to request and receive information about authenticated sessions and end-users. If you are not familiar with OpenID Connect, it is an identity standard built on top of OAuth 2.0 protocol. It allows applications to verify the identity of the end-user based ...
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Layer7 API Management User Group - 3 December,  Amsterdam

By Bill Oakes
Layer7 API Management User Group - 3 December,  Amsterdam Hosted by Broadcom Partner Enable U We would like to invite you to join the upcoming  Layer7(R) API Management User Group Meeting  at the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam on 3 December, hosted by Broadcom's Value Added Distributor, Enable U. We are excited to share our future vision as  a   part of Broadcom, to   provide you with insight into some of our latest innovations and all the continued investments planned for every stage of the lifecycle with Layer7 API Management (formerly CA API Management). This free event will enable you to meet face-to-face with product experts ...
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Forced Re-Authentication: What Is It?

By Madhusudhan Yoganath
As businesses move toward engaging their customers and employees through more digital experiences, there is an increasing risk to security due to the widening of the attack surface. This is driven by the adoption of emerging technologies across distributed architectures and the proliferation of devices and other digital interfaces. With the anywhere, anytime access expected by consumers, identity becomes the new enterprise perimeter, maintaining data security and privacy while granting appropriate access based on the user, device, and application. But security concerns don’t end when a user successfully authenticates. Session hijacking is a growing and dangerous ...
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Projects-to-Products: Intro to Product Marketing

By Brian Nathanson
Product marketing (aka product marketing management) is a part of the "whole product" approach to product management, which states that the product itself (known as the "core product") is only a part of what customers purchase when buying a product. There is a series of additional expectations for things like training & support that customers have that they perceive as an integral part of the product. (The concept of the whole product will be covered under another post if there is enough interest.) Within this umbrella, product marketing focuses on the (1) awareness of, (2) adoption of, and (3) satisfaction with the product.  It also includes “market-sensing” ...
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Projects-to-Products: The Most Overlooked Skill Set in Making the Transition

By Brian Nathanson
In my last two posts ( here and here ), I alluded to the fact that modern product management incorporates many product marketing concepts. In my opinion, product marketing is the single most overlooked skill set  in making the project-to-product transition. Simply put, most stakeholders traditionally involved in engineering (i.e. developers) or finance (i.e. PMO) do not have much, if any, experience in this area and -- as a result -- are ill-equipped for the demands of addressing customers using a product perspective. The rationale for this statement is rooted in the difference between projects & products as well as the psychology of your typical ...
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Project-to-Products: Product Lifecycle Management

By Brian Nathanson
Continuing from my last post ... Nothing has changed in that there is still a heavy product  marketing component to a product manager's work. We'll cover that in some upcoming posts. On the other hand, everything changed in the mid-1980s with the advent of computer systems that would allow better coordination and dynamic changes in the  production of a product -- that is, you could use information about the ecosystem and/or the production process itself to improve the process and inform future product iteration -- often producing superior products at cheaper costs. This new type of product management is often called product  lifecycle  management. The most ...
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Projects-to-Products: Modern Product Management

By Brian Nathanson
Modern product management combines 3 key roles or topics: "Traditional" Product Management (aka Product Marketing Management) Product Lifecycle Management Brand Management (which one can argue is a subset of Product Marketing Management, but has its own unique characteristics) Before we dive deeper into the topic, it should be observed that the concept of "product management" has been around for a very long time. People have certainly been marketing (and thus managing) various products or services ever since the invention of movable type in the mid-1400s -- and probably before that in ways that have been lost to time. For the purposes of this discussion, ...
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Projects-to-Products: The Myth of Backlog Management

By Brian Nathanson
If your primary exposure to product management practices and principles has been through the agilists within your organization, you might have been led to believe that product management simply boils down to creating & grooming a backlog of features. This is a MYTH. There is far more to product management than simply having a prioritized list of features. First -- as I outline here -- remember that product managers  (as opposed to product owners) spend the majority of their time interacting with customers. This means that you need the skills necessary to have positive interactions with those customers and convince them that the vision or strategy set ...
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Five Factors to Consider When Selecting a PPM Solution

By Alf Abuhajleh
If your team is considering investing in a project portfolio management solution, such as Clarity PPM, Planview Enterprise, ServiceNow PPM, or Planisware, you should consider the following five factors before deciding on the optimal platform for you and your company: Does the PPM solution have strong portfolio management capabilities? Does it support deep application portfolio management? Does the PPM solution ensure flexible reporting and actionable analytics? Does it have robust financial management capabilities? Can the PPM solution enable enterprise scalability? After interviewing users of each of the four above-mentioned PPM solutions, Apprize360 ...
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