The Enterprise User Management’s Authentication Service offers several mechanisms to allow users, processes and devices to authenticate. This includes access control to corporate resources for internal and external users including Employees, Customers, Prospects, Partners, Vendors, etc.

To authenticate, the Requestor (i.e. Logon Page) provides the necessary Credentials (i.e. Username and Password) and Resource Identification information, to the Authentication Service via an Authentication Channel (i.e. Secure Sockets Layer). In a successful authentication, the Authentication Service returns an array of one or more effective Rights and Permissions that the requestor has to the resource.

With Enterprise User Management’s Single Sign-On, the user authenticates only once and gets access to their different web applications and backend systems. When integrated with the Corporate Central SaaS Portal, the user can sign on once to gain access to desktop applications, legacy applications, web applications and sites with multiple personalized web workspaces.