Application integration
One of the key aspects for an Identity Provider (IDP) product is integration. Companies already have applications in day-to-day use, and they may be running on different platforms. Customers and partners may have their own IDP and they need to federate their user identities to your services using different protocols. New applications are developed and new platforms taken into production. Existing user repositories should be utilized etc. All this boils down to integration and productized solutions.
Application Integration with Agents
One of the most important things when selecting an IDP for your organization is to ensure that there are enough integration products available for your needs. Integration to existing and new applications should be made using productized off-the-shelf solutions and not SDKs if possible. Ubilogin Web Agents provide the first option for application integration. The Agents are integrated into the applications directly or into the application or web server. The Agent takes care of the user authentication on behalf of the application and relays the role and attribute data from the Identity Provider to the application level if necessary. There are several different Ubilogin Web Agent products available for several different platforms, including Java application servers, .NET, Apache, Microsoft IIS based solutions and more.
Application Integration Solutions
Ubilogin Application Integration Solutions (AIS) take integration one step further by integrating and enhancing the actual application and using the application features and functions when necessary. As with Web Agents, the Ubilogin AIS are products that can be deployed within hours, instead of days. Ubilogin AIS include solutions for Microsoft Outlook Web Access and SharePoint Servces, Citrix Presentation Server (XenApp) and more.
Integration to Back-End Applications
In situations where integration an Agent type of integration is out of the question, Ubilogin Security Proxy product can be used to integrate back-end applications to the centralized authentication and authorization infrastructure. The Ubilogin Security Proxy acts as a reverse proxy in the infrastructure offloading the user authentication and SSL decryption to a dedicated server. Back-End applications can be integrated to the Ubilogin Security Proxy with several different methods from HTTP Headers and Basic Authentication to Kerberos. Using Ubilogin Security Proxy, even legacy applications can be integrated into the authentication infrastructure.
SOA Integration
In the corporate world, client-server applications should be integrated into the enterprise-level authentication infrastructure along with all web based applications. SOA and Web Services provide the tools for authentication integration for the client-server applications. Ubilogin provides a standards-based way to integrate Web Services applications to the centralized authentication and authorization infrastructure using Liberty ID-WSF 2.0 standard.
Standards based integration
Ubilogin Authentication Server has built-in support for the latest identity federation standards such as SAML 2.0, ID-WSF 2.0 and WS-Federation. This enables companies to integrated standard based products with Ubilogin easily and cost effectively. The standard support is built in to the productized solution, and there’s no need to build or compile anything if you wish to utilize these standards through the Ubilogin solution.