Zero Latency Businesses

Federated identities: The epicenter of the real-time enterprise - Computerworld
A nicely done article from the CTO of Waveset (they'll be at this year's conference), includes gems like:

As companies move toward zero-latency business models, federated identity management must evolve to ensure real-time monitoring and control over user access rights and profile data across circles of trust. Centralized identity management solutions that aren't designed for a highly distributed paradigm will be unable to keep up with this next generation of high-velocity, collaborative commerce.