Integrify Software, which sells Enterprise Request Management software, has announced a new Integrify Single Sign-On service for its hosted SaaS (News - Alert) offering, Integrify OnDemand.


In addition to the always-laudable goals of reducing employee frustration with multiple log-in events and remembrance of pesky passwords, the product is touted as a way to "help reduce costs associated with Help Desk fielding user authentication support calls," according to Rich Trusky, CTO of Integrify.

Chicago-based Integrify's product is available either on-premises as licensed server software or as a hosted service, with a Web-based product to "streamline business processes, centrally manage user requests from multiple locations, streamline workflow and operations, automate business processes, and provide increased compliance, visibility and efficiency across organizations," according to company officials.

Basically, for a customer's internal users, the SSO service works by having the internal users browse to integrify.customername.com which brings them to the Integrify OnDemand SSO Web Client, described by vendor officials as "a small Web site running on the organization's internal network. This site is configured to authenticate users against their internal Active Directory.

Then once the user is authenticated, their User ID is passed to Integrify OnDemand along with a shared token and secret which is signed using OAuth. If the signed token, secret and User ID match, the user is presented with the Integrify Portal and may use any of the features available to them.

For a customer's external users, they simply browse to yourcompany.integrify.com and log in directly to the Integrify Portal.

The SSO Service lets organizations "authenticate their users internally using Windows Integrated Authentication, Active Directory or LDAP bind or custom authentication schemes," company officials say, adding that this service "will allow users to access their externally hosted Integrify OnDemand account without having to be prompted for their username and password once they are already authenticated within their organization."

In March Integrify announced the availability of Integrify version 5.0, described as making process management "faster and more cost-effective by putting the ability to develop workflow in the hands of the end users, not just the IT team."

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