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Business Challenge
Passwords seem like a great way to secure your applications. But most users have to log into several password-protected applications and web sites every day - and they often have trouble. In fact, Gartner says about one-third of all calls to Help Desks concern passwords – and that is expensive. Indeed Forrester Research and other research organizations agree that it costs at least $38 to reset a single password. And all those calls cause enormous wear and tear on your over-worked support staff. A solution is needed to save time, money and frustration all around and get your passwords working for you again. You need a comprehensive Single Sign-On solution that can scale up to thousands of workstations and still work transparently when your users are on the road. You need a true SSO solution that will pay for itself within a year.

 
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Successful deployments of Single Sign-On today have a set of key requirements that must be met. Here are some of the most common requirements expressed by organizations seeking Single Sign-On:

• You have a multitude of existing applications on multiple platforms - Windows, Web and legacy - that need to be integrated quickly into the Single Sign-On solution, with a minimum of effort.
• You need a highly available and scalable architecture.
• You need the lowest possible Total Cost of Ownership and the smallest possible IT management burden.
• You need a flexible authentication scheme that supports your choice of current and future technologies.
• You need a solution transparent to users that will not disrupt their daily routines.

Our solution
The Single Sign-On solution of Beta Systems, SAM eSSO, is a proven technology that's easy to use, simple to integrate and cost-effective to manage. It's a flexible, platform independent building block that can integrate smoothly with virtually any environment with a minimal of configuration and maintenance. SAM eSSO meets all the key requirements of today’s organizations, including:

• Quick integration of the vast majority of existing applications - Windows, Web and legacy - through powerful agents and XML parameter files. Scripting to handle exceptional cases is available in the language of your choice.
• A highly available architecture based on multiple servers that provides fail-safe operations scalable up to hundreds of thousands of users.
• The lowest Total Cost of Ownership achieved through leveraging your existing resources and adopting a cost-effective Windows/Intel server platform.
• A flexible authentication scheme that preserves your investment in existing technologies and supports your choice of any future technologies.
• Transparent operations that require no learning curve, no training and no disruption to the normal working routine for your users.

Your Business benefits of a Single Sign-On solution:

• Improved security, since users will not defeat the purpose of passwords by writing them down, posting them on their workstations, or using easy-to-guess strings, such as the names of their pet. Also as SAM eSSO handles the login process, so there is virtually no limit to the password requirements, such as length, characters used and change cycle that can be used for each application – strengthening password policy
• Reduced help desk costs, since fewer users will call for password resets or other password issues that eat up support time.
• Better productivity for users, since they will be able to access enterprise applications on any platform without needing to learn or remember how to logon to each individual platform.
  
  
  
  
• Flyer SAM enterprise Single Sign-On (PDF)