Enterprise OpenID: SAP Becomes a Provider
Enterprise software giant SAP can now be your OpenID provider, according to a blog post from the company this morning. Through their pilot program, you can use an openid.sap.com subdomain as your single sign-on identifier.
The decision to become a provider stemmed directly from the SAP Community Network, which, in addition to being a central site, is connected to a whole host of partners that require separate logins. The aim is to let customers who use the SCN's resources avoid any headache as they move through the network.
Though there's been talk for years of OpenID as the future of enterprise single sign-on, most of the attention from big vendors has been experimental at best. One promising development in enterprise identity standards is the UK-based Kantara Initiative, which has backing from Intel, Oracle, Sun and Novell, among others.
From reading the announcement by SAP, it's pretty clear they've been feeling the pain when it comes to porting identities between the numerous websites that make up their community. While they make it clear that this is a pilot and thus may not work as a general purpose provider at this point, it's a good first step for an enterprise heavyweight like SAP.
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What makes you think Kantara is UK-based? And in which sentence is SAP "feeling the pain"?
Carsten,
You think it was easy to sign up for and log in to all the SCN-related sites? Why would they implement OpenID if it was? The SAP post plainly said that creating a single sign-on system was to deal with that issue.
re: Kantara, that was a mix-up with another post I'm working on. Nowhere in other coverage or their site does it mention being based in the UK. Apologies for any confusion.
Hi,
Are you sure that this SAP can be the open provider?
I need more information and clarifications about your article.
Keep updating.
Great thanks!