#414 - Sponsor Spotlight - Evolveum

This sponsored episode is made possible by Evolveum, the company behind midPoint, an open source IGA platform made and owned in the EU that is in use worldwide.

Jeff Steadman and Jim McDonald welcome Pavol Mederly, interim CPO at Evolveum. Pavol shares how IAM found him in 1991 while building an identity solution at a university before the term even existed.

The conversation covers two core reasons IGA projects fail: data quality and slow application onboarding. Pavol explains how midPoint addresses these challenges with built-in simulations for testing and improving data quality, and midPilot, an AI assistant for faster application onboarding. MidPilot is supported in part by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Jim and Jeff explore midPoint's architecture, the real benefits of open source including transparency and no vendor lock-in, and advantages of being part of midPoint’s global community.

Connect with Pavol: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavol-mederly/

More about Evolveum: https://evolveum.com/idac

Connect with us on LinkedIn:

Jim McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmcdonaldpmp/

Jeff Steadman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsteadman/

Visit the show on the web at idacpodcast.com

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro and sponsor acknowledgment

01:30 How IAM chose Pavol: a university identity story

03:30 What is Evolveum and midPoint

06:30 How Evolveum got its name

08:30 Why IGA projects fail: data quality

10:30 Slow app onboarding and AI-assisted connector generation

16:30 The midPoint simulation feature explained

21:30 midPoint architecture: Java, cloud, Kubernetes, and beyond

23:30 Maintaining a large open source codebase

25:30 Open source benefits: transparency and no vendor lock-in

28:00 Community, meetups, and midPoint in the wild

32:30 Mountains or ocean: a question for Pavol

38:00 Wrap up

KEYWORDS:

Evolveum, midPoint, open source IGA, identity governance, IAM, IGA, data quality, application onboarding, simulation, AI connectors, connector framework, vendor lock-in, open source, EU RRF, Recovery and Resilience Facility, community, Prague, EIC, IDAC, Identity at the Center, Jeff Steadman, Jim McDonald, Pavol Mederly