SaaS brings a lot of advantages to businesses - no need to invest in
purchasing and maintaining licenses and infrastructure, and no need to worry
about upgrades and bug fixes. Larger companies, however, face a major
challenge related to user authentication and management. Larger companies
have invested a lot of time and effort in improving user productivity,
compliance and security, and in cutting user management costs.
They have done so using technologies like single sign-on and centralized user
management. SaaS applications are now challenging those efforts and
threatening to bring them back to the situation where every user has several
different usernames and passwords and the customers have several different
user directories to maintain.
In order to be part of the sol... (more)