Efforts to modernize enterprise infrastructure have never been more complex.
While the need is certainly there on multiple fronts – competitive
edge, cost savings and new business initiatives, to name just a few –
new hurdles seem to pop up no matter where an IT administrator might look.
That includes not just management issues such as cap/ex costs and user
resistance, but also an increasing pancake stack of integration layers within
and among applications. New-generation software tools, legacy development
tools, back-end data resources, hardware infrastructure – all elements
need to play nicely, but few really do.
Enter single sign-on – and open source software – as a way to
facilitate the interoperability required.
The benefits of single sign-on (SSO) – often viewed as a
security-specific solution – go far beyond simple IT ... (more)