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Tech- Questions & Answers |
- What is Web Single Sign On (SSO)?
Web Single Sign On enables enterprise users use single user Identity and Password to log into multiple applications. Single user authentication is used to transparently login in the users into multiple applications. Single Sign On eliminates the need to remember multiple user Identities and passwords.
- What are SaaS Applications?
Software as Service or SaaS applications are solutions that are remotely hosted and managed and are available to enterprises on demand. Salesforce.com, Concurcolutions.com, webex.com are some of the industry leading providers. Both IDC and Gartner predict SaaS market to touch anywhere between $11-14B by 2011.
- Why do enterprises need Single Sign On for SaaS applications?
SaaS applications are hosted remotely and are not enterprise Active Directory integrated. Users have 8 to 10 different user identities and passwords that they need to remember and manage.
In addition most of these applications require passwords to be changed periodically for security reasons as a result users end up writing down these passwords on post-it's and leave them next to the desks.
- How does Blue Coat's Proxy technology help enterprises with SaaS needs?
Blue coat provides industry leading Proxy and WAN acceleration solutions to enterprise markets. Apere provides industry's only Agent less Web Single Sign On solution with RapidConnector Platform for SaaS applications.
Proxy SG and IMAG provide a completely transparent Agent Less Web Single Sign on solution that is easy deployed in the field.
- What is Agentless Web Single Sign On?
Most industry Single Sign on solutions require an active agent to be deployed on client machine. These agents detect and login in users into target applications. Agent based technologies pose multiple challenges 1) Roll out times grow with number of users 2) Dealing with temporary users like guests, students, visiting doctors etc becomes a challenge 3) Maintaining versions and compatible with different operating systems.
Apere offers the only industry leading solution that is agent less. Apere Web SSO can be easily deployed in minutes. Apere's uses patent pending RapidConnector frame work to provide a comprehensive SSO with statistics and reports on usage.
- Why is Apere's technology different?
- Apere's patent pending RapidConnector framework enables a seamless integration with SaaS Applications and provides Agent less Web SSO (Single Sign On) solution to enterprise users.
- IMAG provides a IT administrators view to centrally create, disable users to SaaS Applications in addition to Web SSO.
- IT administrators also can track the SaaS license usage for usage statistics and security
- IMAG also provides automatic password management for applications that require periodic password changes.
- How long does it take to configure ProxySG to enable SSO with IMAG?
IMAG can be field integrated with ProxySG in few minutes. IMAG can be setup in an Active Directory environment for web SSO in less than an hour. Please refer to configuration guide for details.
- Where do I get more information on these configurations?
Please visit Apere website http://www.apere.com or Blue Coat website at http://www.Blue Coat.com for more information
- Contact Information for Blue coat and Apere?
Please visit http://www.apere.com or http://www.Blue Coat.com for more information
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