Very exciting news - an article co-authored by Barry Lawrence of BSTGlobal and myself based on a system now in production at Matrix has just been published in the Microsoft Architecture Journal.

The article is on the subject of Enterprise Identity Synchronization and describes a synchronization pattern and associate system architecture for keeping enterprise identity data up to date between disparate systems. In effect - it is a system for replicating identity memes around an organization.

This has proven to be a fascinating project from a number of standpoints, and I have learned a great deal from the experience of being involved in designing and building a services oriented workflow architecture. The implementation of the system has also been very fascinating, and is a real case study in how systems, people and processes are inherently intertwined. I will write a number of blog posts on the outcome of this project over the next few weeks.