Is your organization ready for Federated federated-identity-management?

Is your organization ready for Federated Identity Management?

As your business continues to grow, so does your need to collaborate with customers, partners, agents and suppliers. The Web has become a major vehicle for information sharing and commerce, and an essential tool in maintaining a foothold in a fiercely competitive marketplace.

Although they frequently do not want the expense of enterprise-class solutions, smaller organizations need to connect with larger organizations in a secure fashion via the Web for a variety of reasons:

The Best Examples - Why You Need It?

  • An independent retailer or manufacturer may need the ability to integrate with a larger organization in its supply chain — to check inventory or place orders.
  • Service providers often need a way to federate identity information with a larger business partner, such as a telecommunications company, to sell their services to end users.
  • Branches of insurance agencies and banks must have a way to securely integrate identity information with the parent company, enabling them to easily access parent company resources.
  • Additionally, businesses of every size may simply need to implement a department-level SSO tool.
All of these organizations require the ability to implement a federated identity management solution that can integrate with third-party identity management solutions in order to deliver trusted and secure Web access to users. Users can then navigate across Web sites while maintaining a single logon identity.

Federated identity management is a key to reducing the cost, complexity and user frustration created by duplication and maintenance of user identities across multiple business partners. It also enables organizations to greatly expand their service offerings and improve the user experience.

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