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Single Sign-On for External Business Partners

Background

Companies with extensive supply or demand chains may want to offer Single Sign-On (SSO) support to or from business partners including suppliers, dealers, distributors and affiliates.

How it Works

Depending on the specific requirements, PingFederate® allows these companies to act as an identity provider, service provider, or both. Companies implementing Partner SSO often implement a partner portal. PingFederate has integration kits available for leading portal platforms and can also connect to business partners via an industry federation hub such as Covisint or Exostar. Commercial, on-demand service providers also use this functionality, either via Web browsers or web services, to "mash up" functionality delivered by business partners.

Benefits

This allows enterprises to deliver value-added services to their partners while leveraging the security and transparency of SSO.

Enterprises with large supply or demand chains often use PingFederate to implement Internet SSO either to or from their business partners.

Enterprises with large supply or demand chains often use PingFederate to implement Cloud SSO either to or from their business partners.

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