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Use Cases: Ways To Use PingFederate
While PingConnect is exclusively designed for SaaS SSO, PingFederate is broadly applicable to many different Internet SSO and universal token translation scenarios. Here you'll find several of the most common PingFederate use cases.
SSO to external/SaaS applications
Enterprises use PingFederate to give their employees Internet SSO access to one or more external service providers such as Software as a Service (SaaS) and business process outsourcing (BPO) providers.
SaaS provider customer SSO
More than 100 SaaS application providers incorporate PingFederate into their product offerings. These companies use PingFederate in three different ways.
Internet SSO for commercial applications
Companies in virtually every industry are now enhancing or expanding their product offerings via additional functionality delivered via the Internet.
Internal SSO
Many organizations find themselves in the situation of managing multiple security domains where users in one domain often need access to applications in another.
PingFederate as an IdM suite federation alternative
Identity management suite customers often choose to implement PingFederate instead of the federated identity module offered by their suite vendor.
Internet SSO for business partners
Companies with extensive supply or demand chains often desire to provide Single Sign-On support to or from business partners including suppliers, dealers, distributors, affiliates and customers.
PingFederate endpoint enablement
A PingFederate Endpoint is a simple, lightweight SAML capability purchased by one party and given to another. Hubs purchase Endpoint licenses for customers, partners and vendors, enabling them to quickly enable Internet Identity.
PingFederate for universal token translation
While Security Token Services were originally invented to identity-enable Web Services, PingFederate customers are discovering a growing list of interesting use cases for the STS and its ability to universally translate security tokens.