Saving Time and Reducing Overhead

In this use case, the Service Provider needs to single sign-on with an Identity Provider that has OpenSSO Enterprise installed in the Identity Provider environment. But the Service Provider does not want to install the full-featured OpenSSO Enterprise just to enable federation. The Service Provider cites one or more of the following reasons for not installing OpenSSO Enterprise:

• The Service Provider is small company that provides one application as only part of their service.

• The Service Provider wants identity federation at minimum cost.

• Installing OpenSSO Enterprise would require investments in hardware, services, and human resources that the Service Provider does not want to make.

• Installing OpenSSO Enterprise would require the Service Provider system administrators to be proficient in implementing identity federation protocols in order to configure and maintain the OpenSSO Enterprise federation deployment.

• The Service Provider wants to quickly enable federation in their environment in a very short timeframe.

• The Service Provider wants only to implement single sign-on with the Identity Provider and retrieve some user attributes for customizing the service to the user. The Service Provider does not want to install a full-featured federation solution and just to use two features.