Back in July, 2009, we announced our teaming with Google to enable the Google login as a universal SaaS login. Today, we announced the Salesforce.com Universal SaaS login.

The Problem

Users and applications are becoming increasingly separated from one another. No longer can it be assumed that a user in domain A is going to access all of his or her applications in the same security domain. This distancing is being accelerated by the proliferation of SaaS, mobility, virtualization, cloud computing and work from anywhere initiatives. The net result is that users have been inundated with user accounts which must be managed and logged into, each with separate passwords. With each new application comes additional complexity and friction to what should have been a more efficient model of business application delivery.

The Solution

As this separation (of users & their apps) continues, technologies such as federated identity come into play, effectively providing a method of re-uniting users with the applications and data they need to access over the Internet. The key to federation is that it does so leveraging open and scalable standards, and is 100% secure.

What Ping Can Do for You

With this announcement, Ping is enabling the Salesforce login to be used as the initial authentication into the world of SaaS. For those companies who operated entirely virtually (e.g. no Active Directory), now you can benefit from single sign-on by using nothing more than your Salesforce login. The new offering from Ping can be purchased both on-demand (PingConnect) or as on-premise software (PingFederate). Over 80 SaaS vendors rely on Ping to provide single sign-on to their customers. Ping is now allowing users of Salesforce to plug into this established fabric of enabled SaaS vendors with a simple turn-key solution.

To find out more about our award winning Internet Single Sign-On solutions, contact Ping today!