How to use Single Sign On as a business enabler?

How to use Single Sign On as a business enabler?

Single Sign-On Benefits

To be an on-demand business, a company frequently requires SSO capabilities. By providing users with the ability to log in once across the applications and operating systems that they need to access, a business drives both quantifiable and qualitative benefits, including:

  • Reduced administration costs

When users must log in multiple times, they are more likely to forget passwords, which in turn lead to greater Help Desk costs. SSO can significantly reduce these calls and their resulting costs.

  • Greater user productivity and experience

SSO allows users to access business systems faster, which enables them to get more done. And users who can sign in once feel better about their transaction experience than users who must log in multiple times with many different IDs and passwords.

  • Faster application deployment

When companies deploy a superior SSO and security system that allows application developers to call out to external security services, security no longer has to be coded into each application. As a result, a company can get new applications to market quickly, and can later update application business logic and enhance security much more efficiently.

The benefits of SSO grow as it is applied against an expanded pool of IT environments. As computing models have evolved from distributed client/server systems to Web-based applications—and now even to federated SSO configurations often involving emerging standards such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Liberty Alliance, and Web Services Federation Language (WS-Federation)—businesses are able to realize increasingly significant value from SSO solutions particular to each model.


Other benefits of Single Sign-On:

  • Ability to enforce uniform enterprise authentication and/or authorization policies across the enterprise

  • End to end user audit sessions to improve security reporting and auditing

  • Removes application developers from having to understand and implement identity security in their applications

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