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Interoperability between applications in heterogeneous technology environments is essential to successfulcollaboration between organizations today. Sun and Microsoft are taking interoperability to a new level byutilizing the SAML federation standard in both the Sun OpenSSO Enterprise federation solution and theforthcoming Microsoft “Geneva” Server federation solution.

By standardizing on SAML for federation, Sun and Microsoft enable organizations to deliver collaborativeservices with ease.

"Geneva" and Novell Access Manager

Despite remarkable gains in IT capabilities and collaboration, organizationscontinue to struggle with administrative complexity, workforce productivity, anddata security. Many organizations support a large number of users—includingemployees, customers, partners, and suppliers—who seek access to a widevariety of applications and services. This can be particularly challenging inmixed-technology and multiple-domain environments where users are spreadacross technical and business boundaries.

Microsoft and Novell have come together to solve these challenges and boostcross-organizational collaboration. The two companies are building theinteroperability bridges that enable customers to reduce complexity, enhancesecurity, and decrease costs. This paper explains the need for standards-basedidentity federation, and the current and forthcoming solutions that improve theinteroperability of mixed-technology directory environments.

Microsoft and CA

Access management solutions that introduce a middleware “layer of security abstraction” into the communication between applications, user repositories and authentication technologies enable organizations to improve administrative efficiency, better secure data and applications, and improve outreach to business partners and customers. This white paper reviews how solutions from CA (CA SiteMinder, CA Federation Manager) and Microsoft (Active Directory Federation Services (formerly code named “Geneva”)) provide this middleware software layer, while supporting standards-based communication protocols that enable cross-technology access management and identity federation scenarios. Specific interoperability-oriented use cases are discussed in detail.

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