ForgeRock, the official stewards of the ForgeRock I³ Open Platform project, while providing details of some their new OpenAM Identity Management customers, has announced selection of its leadership team, following a company summit meeting in Stavanger, Norway.
Officials with ForgeRock said that ForgeRock I³ Open Platform is an open, high-performance and unified platform addressing Interaction, Identity and Integration issues facing enterprises today.
The I³ Open Platform is built from proven open source projects including OpenAM, based on OpenSSO, OpenESB, OpenIdM and OpenPortal, based on Liferay Portal.
Company officials said that industry veteran and former chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems (News - Alert), Simon Phipps will be joining the ForgeRock board and executive team as chief strategy officer.
Phipps brings his experience of open source communities, governance and open standards to the company.
He joins chief executive officer, Lasse Andresen and director of sales, Hermann Svoren.
Phipps is a director of the Open Source (News - Alert) Initiative, or "OSI," and board advisor of Open Source for America.
Just three months after its official launch, ForgeRock has provided both support subscriptions and training for open source software from its portfolio to a broad range of customers including: Betfair, an online gambling service provider and NBS (News - Alert) AS, Norwegian state railway company.
NSB AS, Norwegian State Railways, is one of Norway's foremost transport companies, with roots going back as far as the launch of Norway's first railway service in 1854. The Group's main activities are passenger transport by train and bus and rail freight operations.
The NSB Group consists of a number of wholly owned and partly owned subsidiaries.
"We planned to go live with IaM based on OpenSSO this spring. ForgeRock is offering support that will enable us to achieve this using OpenAM without major disruptions of the project," said Jan Christiansen, director, NSB.
Christiansen said that ForgeRock is a new company, but with a very strong team consisting of well-known professionals from the IaM field.
"We expect ForgeRock to be responsive, professional and effective in helping NSB to achieve our goals," he said.
Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil's articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
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