SSO Solutions for Commercial Applications

Why have over 175 SaaS and BPO and other service providers including ADP, Best Buy, Comcast, Rearden Commerce and TriNet turned to Ping Identity for Internet SSO? Because only Ping has the products, services and expertise required to support all the Internet identity use cases currently being addressed by online service providers.

Enterprises shifting to SaaS and cloud-based applications are requiring their service providers support standards-based Internet SSO to improve usability, increase security and reduce administrative costs. At the same time, service providers recognize that Internet SSO plays an essential role in giving their users a seamless user experience. They also recognize that SSO can help boost revenue by reducing account sharing. 

Service providers with commercial applications use Ping Identityʼs PingFederate to SAML and WS-Federation based SSO for incoming customers, to automate the creation of new user accounts, eliminating a significant administrative task for their customers, and to create seamless services mashups based on either browser SSO or identity-enabled Web Services.

Why use PingFederate for commercial applications?

One solution that works for all your customers

PingFederate supports every federated identity standard protocol currently used for B2B: SAML 2, SAML 1.1, SAML 1.0 and WS-Federation. So whatever federation protcol your customer wants you to support, you will be covered with PingFederate.

Seamless user experience makes your products easier to use

Cloud-based services have the potential to make life more difficult for customers if customers must manually negotiate from one service to the next via repeated login screens. With PingFederate, customers can access your service with a single mouse click, just as if your service were running on your customerʼs local network. Furthermore, when they want to use third party services you have incorporated into your product offering, those services are just one more mouse click away with no additional logins.

Rapid implementations minimize service setup times

Most service providers want to minimize service setup time as they cannot begin booking recurring revenue until their product is ready to go live. PingFederate can be incorporated into your online service and connected to your first customer in less than 30 days. Subsequent new customer connections take only a few days.

Complete Internet identity security platform

PingFederate comes with everything service providers need to implement, deploy and manage Internet identity at scale. Available Integration Kits provide out-of-the box integration with leading application and portal environments. Express provisioning allows you to eliminate a painful administrative task for your customers. The Security Token Services allows you to use Universal Token Translation to create Web Services-based mashups. And if you have customers who want SSO but do not have their own SAML capability, Ping Identity has a SAML endpoint program that allows you to refer or resell Ping products.

Avoids DIY, IdM suite issues

Service providers who build their own SSO face long development cycles, ongoing resource commitments, potential security vulnerabilities and custom solutions that cannot be used across multiple customers. Other service providers who attempt to leverage their organizationʼs enterprise identity management suite find out the hard ways these products are designed and priced for managing employee identities, not customers. Ping Identity gives service providers the software they need, as well as support and programs to make them successful with their SSO initiatives.

Ping Identity SaaS Partner Program

SaaS providers can take advantage of Pingʼs SaaS Partner program that makes making PingFederate your preferred solution for Internet SSO an easy decision that makes sense with your business model.