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PingConnect™ is the industry's first complete on-demand Internet SSO service for Salesforce CRM and Google Apps™. PingConnect improves user adoption by making SaaS applications easier to access from multiple access points such as Web browsers, mobile devices, Connect for Microsoft Outlook and email. It reduces administrative costs by eliminating manual procedures, and improves security by tightening control over who can access the valuable corporate data. Powered by award-winning PingFederate®, PingConnect works with your organization's existing directory and authentication mechanisms. PingConnect provides comprehensive Internet SSO functionality and automated user account provisioning – a perfect solution for customers with limited resources and short deployment timelines.
PingConnect provides secure Internet SSO connections to Salesforce CRM and Google Apps.
Improved User Adoption
Most application users have come to expect some form of SSO for their organization's applications. Moving to a SaaS platform could mean losing SSO, which could discourage users from adopting the new system. PingConnect Internet SSO improves user adoption by making your SaaS service available anytime, anywhere. It is easy to use and eliminates the "I forgot my password" excuse. PingConnect provides SSO no matter how your users access your SaaS service: from their desktop or on the road, as well as from their Web browser, mobile device or even Microsoft Outlook.
Reduced Administrative Costs
While SaaS applications offer many advantages, they have one big disadvantage: they do not integrate with your existing infrastructure. As a result, your administrators have to manually set up accounts for all your users. PingConnect reduces administrative costs by automating this tedious manual work. Not only do you save money, you also free up time for your administrators to further optimize your SaaS implementations.
Strengthen Security
PingConnect helps protect the valuable data stored in your SaaS application in three ways. First, it locks deactivated users out of your SaaS service. No longer will terminated employees be able to download your customer list by logging directly into the SaaS application. Second, it reduces the need for Internet login forms, which decreases the opportunity for phishing. Finally, it reduces the number of user credentials, decreasing opportunities for identity theft.
SSO for Multi-Access Methods
PingConnect's functionality supports all of your user access methods. For instance, Salesforce CRM users with PingConnect enjoy SSO access not only when they use their desktop Web browser, but also when they browse from a mobile device, utilize Connect for Microsoft Outlook, and even when they receive emailed report URLs. PingConnect also work whether your users log into your corporate network from their desktops or connect directly to your SaaS provider while on the road.
Rapid Deployment with Minimal IT Involvement
Designed for organizations that need SaaS SSO but who have minimal IT support, PingConnect minimizes the time and effort required to get the system deployed. Your IT support group only needs to perform four steps to get PingConnect into production. Depending on the type of secure connection deployed, the entire process can be completed in hours. Furthermore, once the initial setup is complete, there is absolutely no additional maintenance required on the part of your support team other than maintaining up-to-date user accounts in your corporate directory - something they already do.
PingConnect deploys in as little as a few hours, with limited IT support and virtually no maintenance.
Automated Provisioning and De-Provisioning
PingConnect’s automated provisioning completely eliminates manual provisioning of user accounts to SaaS providers such as Salesforce.com and Google Apps. It works with your existing identity infrastructure, replicating account creation, changes and deletions to your SaaS providers' directories when your administrator makes those account changes in your corporate directory.
Works With What You Already Have
Any organization that has invested in building a corporate directory wants to leverage it for everything possible, and avoid having to recreate or duplicate any of it. PingConnect extends your existing directory and authentication infrastructure to work with your SaaS application. This feature will be greatly appreciated by your IT staff because it leverages your existing IT investment.
Powered by PingFederate®
PingConnect is powered by PingFederate, Ping Identity's award-winning federated identity software that provides Internet SSO for external partner connections, including SaaS and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) providers, managed services, trading partners, affiliates, acquisitions and customers. More than 260 enterprises and service providers worldwide use PingFederate to connect their users to external mission-critical applications over the Internet.
