Repsol Energizes Employees With One-click Cloud Access

Challenge

Repsol’s IT department struggled with previous solutions that featured complex architectures, frequent errors, and a lack of support for federation standards. Without a unified system, employees had to remember different passwords for external platforms accessed only occasionally. This resulted in frequent requests for new credentials, draining both user productivity and IT support resources. Repsol required a tool that met the strict standards of the Kantara Initiative.

Solution

Repsol chose PingFederate, a full-featured federation server, to provide web Single Sign-On (SSO) for its global workforce. PingFederate was selected for its task-oriented nature, simple architecture, and superior integration capabilities across diverse platforms compared to competitors. The implementation was rapid; within three months, Repsol began integrating various corporate cloud applications, enabling users to access services without distributing credentials to third-party systems.

Results

The primary benefit of the PingFederate deployment was the perfect balance between ease of use and high-level security. By integrating Ping with Repsol’s standard authentication methods, employees connected to the corporate network can now automatically access cloud services after their initial device login. This has improved access times and overall user efficiency, leading to a new corporate mandate: any new cloud service contracted by Repsol must now be integrated with PingFederate.