The document discusses AssureBridge's single sign-on (SSO) solution. It notes that implementing SSO is complex and involves security, expertise, time-to-market and operations challenges. AssureBridge's hosted SSO service addresses these challenges by rapidly deploying reliable SSO, leveraging security standards without adding staff expertise, and providing 24/7 support and monitoring of the solution. A demo shows how AssureBridge enables a small rental company to quickly and seamlessly connect its users to a large insurance partner's system through SSO.
9. Staff can’t provide adequate on-going supportCUSTOMER NEED: Rapidly implement reliable Internet SSO functionality
10. Customers See Internet SSO as High Risk Client’s actual planning notes flagging timely SSO integration as Risk++
11. AssureBridge Offering – SSO Exchange Fully-Managed Hosted Single Sign-On Service Connects to your business Web applications Powers seamless SSO between your web applications and your partners’ Provides professional setup, configuration,troubleshooting, and monitoringby AssureBridge experts
18. AssureBridge Positioning For small and medium businesses who are under partner pressure to rapidly implement complex Web Single Sign-On SSO Exchange is an affordablefull-service hosted solution that delivers the most reliable standards-compliant Internet SSO functionality in the least amount of time To enable high level of customer and partner satisfactionand the growth of their business
20. Secure Internet SSO is Highly Complex Secure and reliable Internet SSO involves many complex interactions among multiple distributed parties. AssureBridgeshields you from these complexities. Internet SSO involves many complex interactions among multiple parties
70. For additional information, including a personalized demo please contactOleg CohenAssureBridge, Inc. Oleg.Cohen@assurebridge.com 617-455-7927 Visit our Web Site at: http://www.assurebridge.com
72. How we solve the problemWithout AssureBridge Partner A Partner B Web Site A Web Site B Integration ($$) Integration ($) Commercial SSO Product ($$$) Home-Grown SSO Product ($$) SSO Infrastructure + Operations ($$) SSO Infrastructure + Operations ($)
77. Business Case Speedy Rental is a small regional provider Reliable Insurance is a large national company Speedy has an opportunity to expand its business by partnering with Reliable Insurance Reliable has implemented an expensive commercial Internet SSO platform Reliable requires all its partners to support seamless SAML-based logon for its customers Speedy lacks ability to develop and maintain its own SSO solution and is under pressure to deliver Speedy chooses AssureBridge to help it quickly and reliably connect with the demanding partner
88. Desired SSO Experience – Partner Site Seamlessly taken to Partner Site Click on Logout Link User ID and Profile Information Transferred Between Sites
AssureBridge’s key mission is to enable B2B partners to quickly establish and securely operate Seamless Sign-On capability for their customers who navigate across multiple web sites.
There might be cases when a small company wants to link to multiple larger/more powerful partners who demand SSO. In this case AssureBridge value proposition is magnified as the burden on the small firm to deliver grows many-fold.
Possible Secondary Business Drivers/Sought Outcomes: Expand customer base Increase revenue Increase online presence (e.g. to up-sell/cross-sell more of your product) Expand to other markets Leverage companion offerings
Short timePowerful partnerStrong demand for SAML 2.0== Risk++Meniton Complexity: You will see in the demo and our clients experience first-hand
Fastest way to implement Internet Single Sign-On Requires the least technical expertise to set-up and manage Most reliable SSO solution available All this at a very affordable cost
Fastest way to implement Internet Single Sign-On Requires the least technical expertise to set-up and manage Most reliable SSO solution available All this at a very affordable cost
Also, this enhances the relationships Always up-to-date Strong, scalable
Unlike with costly implementation of a commercial product, you can deliver withouthigh-priced expert staff, lengthy implementation cycles, and expensive in-house infrastructure.
See the appendix for demo screenshots
Finding ExpertsLengthy Delivery TimesSecurity ConcernsOperations and Support
Fully-managed, integrated, end-to-end solution. We contrast ourselves to other solutions in that they leave you to your own devices to figure out integration and support of the final solution.This is how we make it easy for you.
“Guilty until proven innocent”
Anecdotally, during a recent incident when customer’s partner’s site was experiencing issues and the SSO product was immediately blamed, we were able to not only quickly show that the SSO wasn’t the issue, but also diagnose the root cause of the problem since our tools provide a lot of useful information.