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Abstract
Single sign-on, or simply SSO, is an emerging technology
that is widely popular. It has the ability to log in
once, and be authenticated to access all the applications
and resources of the organization. With a growth in
demand for a variety of e-business applications, they
are becoming more and more sophisticated, with complex
functional and technical requirements. Although new
trends in e-business application development have made
the development simple, the issues of integrating the
applications with other applications or the existing
e-business infrastructure are not trivial. The ideal
and efficient solution to address these issues is an
effective SSO strategy. Single sign-on is imperative
to any organization that has a variety of disparate
applications and resources. Organizations implementing
single sign-on have realized the benefits, in terms
of improved user productivity and simplified administration
resulting in reduction of administrative costs. Although,
a coherent a single sign-on framework has far reaching
benefits, it can be difficult, time-consuming and expensive
to retrofit to existing applications. Moreover, with
security being non-negotiable, the emphasis on a robust
single sign-on strategy has increased.
This white paper describes a single
sign-on framework WebIntelligence®. The paper addresses
the Integration of an ebusiness application that is
built on a tool like WebIntelligence with other applications
or the existing e-business infrastructure posing various
technical challenges and issues. Although the single
sign-on solution discussed in the paper has single signon
for WebIntelligence as the central theme, the solution
is generic in terms of single sign-on. The paper can
serve as a guideline for any SSO implementation. The
paper describes the best practices, including the issues
and challenges that single sign-on implementation brings
to organizations with distributed, diverse applications
and technologies..
Authors
Kalamalla M Basha,
Gopi Venkappa Hombal
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