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ESSOM –Enterprise Single Sign On Manager SSO

Now I know that most of my blogs focus on UMRA and its COM object, however tools4ever released a few months back Enterprise Single Sign On Manager ESSOM for short. What is this application, and what does it do you ask? Well, I know most of you are familiar somehow or another with the term Single Sign On. Single Sign on allows you to have an automatic sign in process to web based applications, windows applications etc. So take this for example, when you come into work for the day, you might have to log into a few applications like goldmine, access database, outlook web access, or other internal or external applications web based or not. With ESSOM you sign in once, and every time you go to it from there on, ESSOM will then automatically take the username / password you used from the previous login, to log you in. No more forgetting passwords, or taking five to ten minutes each day to log into your other applications. Now not only is the above example really handily, but ESSOM is a complete Single Sign On Solution. Unlike like most Single Sign ON SSO applications, you are bound to what applications they can connect to, and you have no control over some of the applications you want to assign out, or even who can use SSO. ESSOM takes all the locks, and the hassles out of having to contact your SSO provider each time a new version of software comes out etc. With ESSOM you are able to make your own SSO solution for the different applications that are out there. Again, it can be a web based application, a Windows application etc. ESSOM comes with delegation control, so you can now have full control over what applications are available for enrollment, and who they are enrolled to. You have full control over how the applications functionally works, you can create custom login box’s, controls, messages etc. So as you can see ESSOM is a complete Single Sign On Solution. I hope this gives some of you out there an idea of what ESSOM. So if you haven’t already download the trial version with the link at the top of the page. Blog Update July 28th 2009 Since Single Sign On Enterprise solutions are really coming into there own now days, I will elaborate on this topic a bit more. So as you've seen above tools4ever's ESSOM product is very versitle in its core application, however, there are a ton of built in freatures, and Templates for different applications built right in, so you can get your Single Sign On running faster them ever. Templates you ask, yes... out of the box 10+ already configured applications are ready for use, all you have to do is assign them to your users, and your off. This whole process should only take around 10-15 minutes, so as you can so, not a whole ton of adjusting needed. You can however, go back and edit these applications, you can edit how they work, what prompts say etc. Now keep this in mind, you can edit any of these prebuilt Templates to your liking, or revamp them completely. So as a new application version comes out, you can use the previous versions template as a road map to your new version, very few, if not one or two actions will need to be changed. Now there is one feature that I thought some of you might find very hand and very useful to use. Well there are 2, so lets talk about the first hand feature of ESSOM . One feature is the abilty to use one username / password to sign into an application automaticly. Now wait, let me get into this a bit deeper, so lets say you have an applicating called "PayRole", and you have two username / passwords for this applications. One of the usernames are used for "general" employes, and the other is for "admins". You can now assign a Single Sign On Solution to a user, and when they open this "PayRole" application, they wont even see the username / password that you already assigned to the user for enrollment. To the end user its seamless and they think they sign right into the application. The second handy feature of ESSOM is the ability to allow users to asign other users there login creditials, without giving them the username / password of the account. You, as an admin of ESSOM have the ability to say what applications you can do this with, and who can do this. So for example if a manager was leaving on vacation for a week, and was letting someone take his duties, but this other user needed different usernames / passwords for these other applications so it will give them options etc. based on there role, typically the manager would have to give the delegated person his username and passwords. Not anymore with ESSOM . You can allow users to delegate these out, for a specific period of time, and when the users signs into the assigned application it will use the delegated credentials to log in with, no need to pass along passwords and usernames. So I hope this gives some of you out there a better idea of what Tools4Ever ESSOM application does on a more detailed level. However, I have yet to really touch on all the core functions of this application, so keep an eye out for new updates on this blog.