Technology
Many companies in the technology sector are finding advantages to implementing identity-focused solutions in their organizations. Be it cost savings, productivity gains, or new business opportunities, federation and identity Web services are delivering strong returns to these hi-tech IT vendors, both internally and as they interact with their customers and partners.
In the chart below, please note that "Liberty Federation" is used to indicate any of the standards in the Liberty Federation family of specs (ID-FF 1.x, 2.0 and SAML 2.0).
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| CA (Computer Associates) | CA is leveraging identity federation & SAML 2.0 for its employees’ access to outsourced services such as employee benefits and other specialized outsourced applications. CA finds federation beneficial not just for the improved user experience resulting from federated SSO but the improved security and control of access to critical outsourced applications and data that is inherent with federation. | CA uses CA SiteMinder as an integrated Web access management system & federation platform for its employees around the world and has baked federation into its strategy for enabling outsourcing and partnering going forward. | |
| CapeClear | EBS platform technology | Supports SAML 2.0 | |
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| DatR | DatR is a digital virtual locker for digital media content enabling users to store, access, publish and transfer files to YouTube and MySpace, eBay and elsewhere via Intenet or mobile platforms. It is being developed by AgileCo. | Users are authenticated via Liberty/SAML | |
| Enterprise Single Sign On Engine (ESOE) | The ESOE is an advanced system which allows an enterprise to meet its individual goals for integrated identity management, SSO, authorization, federation and accountability for resource access in a very extensible manner. The ESOE was originally developed at and for the Queensland University of Technology (Australia) to further its goals in advanced research and collaboration over electronic networks with other universities and business around the world. | The ESOE is built using SAML 2.0 with an authorization engine built around a reduced version XACML 2.0. The ESOE can integrate identity from unlimited repositories, automatically create sessions for users who are logged into Active Directory, provide for centralized authorization policy management and natively federate with technologies such as Shibboleth and OpenID. | |
| eRX | Electronic land records exchange | Liberty ID-WSF | |
| Resources: • eRX 2 > • eRX 1 > |
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| The Google Search Appliance supports native, SAML-based interfaces for authentication and authorization. Their SAML 2.0 based-provider interface leverages the emerging XML standards to allow for third party user authentication and external results authorization. | Liberty Federation | Hundreds of corporate customers deploy this application | |
| Resources: • Google > |
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| Google Apps for Your Domain | A SAML-based Single Sign-On (SSO) service that provides partner companies with full control over the authorization and authentication of hosted user accounts that access Web-based applications (like GMail or Calendar). Using the SAML model, Google acts as the service provider and provides services such as Gmail and Partner Start Pages (PSP). Google partners act as identity providers and control usernames, passwords and other information used to identify, authenticate and authorize users for Google hosted web applications. | SAML-based SSO | |
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| HP | Single IdM implementation for the customer identity management system for HP with horizontal process and shared services across all hp.com web sites. Service growing at 700K users/month, with major ROI returns as well as increased security and new business opportunities. | Liberty Federation | 21 million users in the system as of March 2006(customers, employees, suppliers, partners, and managed services), with 700K being added monthly |
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| Intel | SSO and federation project impacting Intel employees, moving in stages to impact suppliers and others with Circles of Trust. | Liberty Federation | |
| Resources: • Intel_casestudyFINAL.pdf 119.56 kB
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| JBoss (RedHat) | JBoss Federated SSO Framework is an open source, end-to-end cross domain single sign on/single sign out using the SAML. Will be implementing full SAML 2.0 support. | ||
| Resources: • JBoss2 > • JBoss > |
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| Large Records Management and Data Protection Company | Liberty Federation | ||
| Netamia (Denmark) | Net-Safe is a user-centric identity management solution. The goal is to offer the individual user better control and overview of his activities on the internet, including the option to act anonymously or under pseudonyms (virtual identities) in different contexts. | Net-Safe has been developed to support identity related services on a fully international basis. The initial beta will, however, be conducted exclusively with existing users of the internet community Heste-Nettet, the major Danish portal for persons interested in horses. | |
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| Postini | Postini, the integrated message management company, supports SAML-based SSO | Liberty Federation | |
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| PostX | PostX ensures secure electronic delivery of information vital to business and customer relationships. | Liberty Phase Two specs | |
| Resources: • PostX > |
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| Salesforce.com | Federation, IDM | SAML 2.0 | |
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| SAP | SAP’s Netweaver Application Server supports SAML 2.0, Netweaver Portal 20042 also integrates with Sun’s Java System Access Manager and SAML | ||
| Resources: • SAP 2 > • SAP 1 > |
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| SugarCRM | SSO and identity management | Liberty/SAML | |
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| Sun Microsystems | Internal HR/portal project to help facilitate the security of outsourcing, help reduce some work for application teams, and help reduce support costs. | Liberty Federation | |
| Resources: • Sun_Palo_Alto_2005_Liberty_in_the_Enterprise.pdf 129.36 kB
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| WebEx | Using federated identity for secure Web-meetings and on-demand collaboration applications. | SAML 2.0 | |
| Resources: • WebEx > |
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