Business Gateway
Features and benefits
Features | Advantages | Benefits |
---|---|---|
E-mail configuration files | Easy and rapid deployment | Accelerates time-to-value, improves configuration, helps eliminate need for expensive 3rd party services |
Rather than having to enroll third-party users into a company's internal identity systems, federated identity management enables IT service providers to offload the cost of user administration to their business partner companies | Since the business partner company acts like an identity provider, the service provider does not have to take on the burden of user administration costs such as user enrollment, account management, password management, password reset, help desk, or customer care costs | Helps to reduce administration and provisioning costs, since managing identities for third-party users can be a manual, cumbersome, and costly proposition that depletes critical IT resources |
Facilitates "straight through processing" techniques because the identity provider does not have to replicate or stage business processes on behalf of a service provider | Integrated session management significantly facilitates inter-company transactions. With a federated identity model, identity providers have an opportunity to streamline inter-company transactions, thereby reducing costs, and simplifying integration | Integration is simplified because there is a common way to share identities between companies and manage user sessions |
Single Sign-On | Simple SSO solution | Reduces help desk costs and improves user satisfaction |
Business benefits
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway is the ideal entry point for establishing federated Web SSO capabilities. Built especially for small-to-midsize organizations, this powerful collaboration software uses open standards to bring together customers, partners and supplierswith a single, easy-to-deploy solution that provides a smooth migration pathway to an enterprise-level solution.
Implementing a federated SSO solution not only helps improve the user experienceby providing a single password for logon to multiple business partnersbut it also enables you to more effectively manage identities across your infrastructure while preserving the confidentiality of user data.
AT-A-GLANCE
Collaboration with customers, partners, agents, and/or providers often plays a key role in the Business Process Management initiatives motivating a move towards a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Browser-based integration with these external organizations, and basing the integration on open standards for federated single sign-on, provides quick gains in user productivity and experience, while also providing opportunities for reducing user administration costs.
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway (TFIM-Business Gateway) provides an entry-level federation solution for small-to-medium enterprises, as well as providing a low infrastructure option for department and project focused federation solutions. Unlike many competitive offerings, TFIM-Business Gateway does not rely on proprietary APIs that tightly bind business applications to the federation software. This loose coupling between TFIM-Business Gateway and business applications provides faster deployment times and reduced ongoing maintenance costs.
For those enterprises that later grow their federation needs, TFIM-Business Gateway provides an easy migration path to the enterprise level Tivoli Federated Identity Manager offering, with little or no application changes and a consistent management user interface.
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway provides:
- Simplified integration with online partners
- Fast time-to-market for e-business initiatives via accelerated SSO deployment, achieved through loose coupling between federation software and business applications
- A lightweight, easily deployable solution for straightforward SSO needs
- Audit logs, tracking and incident reportsas well as security best practicesto meet corporate and regulatory compliance policies
- Improved user experience and reduced user administration costs by using federated single sign-on with customer, partner, agent, and provider organizations
- Flexible identity and attribute mapping during federated single sign-on
- An entry level federation solution with a smooth migration path to an enterprise-level solution
- A small infrastructure footprint
- A suitable federation solution for small-to-medium enterprises or department and project level requirements
TFIM-Business Gateway is a software solution that supports open standards to provide Web SSO to members of a business federation. Key characteristics include:
- Stand-alone Web Federated-SSO Solution
- Built on embedded WebSphere Application Server 6.1
- Lightweight, less-function companion to FIM Enterprise
- Single installation allows multiple federations for:
- Identity Provider role
- Service Provider role
- Out-of-the-box integration with Identity stores:
- Windows Desktop SSO via WebSphere 6.1 SPNEGO plugin (TAI)
- Enterprise Directory via WebSphere Authentication services
- Out-of-the-box integration with Application platforms:
- .NET via IIS plugin
- J2EE via WebSphere LTPA token
- Easy replication for High Availability
- replication of configuration must be done manually, deployment to WebSphere cluster not supported
- Support for SAML 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 (Browser POST & Artifact)
Benefits
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway implements an identity business process that enables companies to simplify identity management and the ability for these identity-based business processes to collaborate securely and seamlessly within a service-oriented architecture. It can provide the following for companies engaging in a federation.
For the business executive:
- Best-of-breed integrated solution from a proven vendor
- The proven experience of IBM Services for Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and Tivoli identity management solutions
- Low total cost of ownership
- IT manageability
For the IT executive:
- Lower user administration and provisioning costs related to identity management
- Simplified integration between companies and their partners Web sites
- Improved business compliance through reduced security exposure
- Improved end-user experience through federated single-sign-on and single sign-off
- Expanded business reach of service providers creating revenue-generating opportunities
- Simplified administration of security in cross-enterprise business processes by delivering "security as a service"
- Part of a complete range of solutions for identity management, ranging from user lifecycle management through authentication, authorization and privacy, to the identity infrastructure itself in the form of directory and metadirectory
Unique differentiators
- Implements key standards and specifications for federated identity management: SAML, Liberty, WS-Federation, OpenID and Information Card
- Delivered and supported by IBM Tivoli, which is committed to enterprise security, offering a full identity management portfolio, and continuing to strongly influence and drive Federated Identity Management and other security standards
- Drop-in federation with minimal impact on applications providing quicker time to value and greatly reduced ongoing maintenance costs
- Offers attractive per-user tiered pricing model with unlimited user license model for securing e-business
- Is architected for high availability and scalability and is in use by customers to secure federated users numbering in the millions
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