SAML provides a standards based approach for Single Sign On. SAML is deployed in tens of thousands of cloud single sign-on (SSO) connections. Thousands of large enterprises, government agencies and service providers have selected it as their standard protocol for communicating identities across the internet. If you have an identify management system that supports SAML, you now can easily add OrgChart Now to your application dashboard.
End users benefit because SAML promotes single sign-on (the ability to use a variety of Internet resources without having to log in repeatedly) and a more personalized user experience that can nonetheless be made privacy-friendly.
OrgChart Now is already up and running against a number of SAML solutions including okta.com and onelogin.com.
Some concrete benefits of SAML are:
- Platform neutrality. SAML abstracts the security framework away from platform architectures and particular vendor implementations. Making security more independent of application logic is an important tenet of Service-Oriented Architecture.
- Improved online experience for end users. SAML enables single sign-on by allowing users to authenticate at an identity provider and then access service providers without additional authentication. In addition, identity federation (linking of multiple identities) with SAML allows for a better-customized user experience at each service while promoting privacy.
- Reduced administrative costs for service providers. Using SAML to 'reuse' a single act of authentication (such as logging in with a username and password) multiple times across multiple services can reduce the cost of maintaining account information.This burden is transferred to the identity provider.
- Risk transference. SAML can act to push responsibility for proper management of identities to the identity provider, which is more often compatible with its business model than that of a service provider.
