Denver, Colo. — January 20, 2010 — Ping Identity, the leader in Internet Identity Security, today announced a new certification program that makes it easier for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers to guarantee their customers fast, easy Single Sign-On access to their on-demand applications. The Ping Certified SaaS Provider Program lets SaaS vendors who have already invested in a Single Sign-On technology test and certify that their SSO implementations work seamlessly with Ping Identity’s Internet SSO solutions.

“The SaaS movement is driving new demands for identity management and Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities for multiple applications,” said Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies and Founder of the SaaS Showplace. “Ping Identity’s new certification program permits SaaS providers to obtain standards-based SSO interoperability without having to invest additional time and dollars so they can focus their resources on better serving their customers.”

According to Mike Desai, Ping Identity’s Director of Business Development and Strategic Cloud Alliances, “The Ping Certified SaaS Provider Program is designed to quickly and cost-effectively meet basic customer SaaS SSO needs, regardless of the SSO implementations that SaaS vendors may already have in place. The program also responds to sophisticated SSO connectivity requirements that are surfacing with SaaS mashups like SuccessFactor’s recently launched SuccessCloud platform, designed to connect third-party applications and data from other business systems with the SuccessFactors Business Execution Software.”

“Ping Identity already helps a number of SuccessFactors customers with SSO access to our Business Execution Software Suite,” said Tom Fisher, Vice President, Cloud Computing, SuccessFactors. “As a Ping Certified SaaS Provider, SuccessFactors can now guarantee SSO interoperability to our SuccessCloud customers for improved execution and maximized productivity and overall business performance.”

Under the terms of the Ping Certified SaaS Provider program, SaaS vendors work with Ping Identity Certification (PIC) experts to test and certify that the vendors’ SSO implementations work seamlessly with PingFederate® and PingConnect™. As a result:

Ping Certified SaaS Providers can leverage Ping Identity technology to ensure their existing SSO solutions will interoperate with customers’ varying SSO protocol connectivity requirements.
SaaS customers who are already using Ping Identity solutions to support their organizations’ other Internet SSO requirements can trust that Ping Certified SaaS Providers’ applications will integrate easily into their existing identity management processes.
Ping Certified SaaS Providers can recommend Ping Identity’s SAML-based solutions for customers who don’t have SSO or who need an SSO solution that will work with the SaaS vendor’s application and the customer’s existing SSO implementations.
“As a Ping Certified SaaS Provider, Ping’s technology can work as an intermediary for customers that don’t support SAML, giving us the potential to never make any code changes again,” said Zoho Evangelist Raju Vegesna. “The program is a win-win for Zoho and our customers. Customers get solid SSO access to our tools and we stay focused on supporting them with the industry’s best online application suite.”

Ping Certified SaaS Providers receive free listings in Ping Identity’s Partner Directory, are automatically eligible to participate in Ping Identity’s referral program and have unlimited access to Ping Identity experts for assistance in on-boarding new customer connections through PingConnect, support. They also have an easy path to join Ping Identity’s SaaS Partner Program as their business requirements grow.

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HP today announced plans to expand its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering across its Business Technology Optimization (BTO) portfolio to help customers quickly and cost-effectively maximize the value of their software implementations.

The HP BTO software portfolio helps customers better manage their IT projects and services, ensure the quality and performance of their IT applications, and monitor their online businesses.

SaaS, also known as software “on demand,” is a model in which software is developed, hosted and operated for use by customers over the Internet. Customers do not own the software itself, but rather pay to use it.

HP plans to offer IT Service Management through the SaaS delivery channel, in addition to its current offering of Business Availability Center, Quality Center, Performance Center and Project and Portfolio Management Center products.

HP’s SaaS customer base now includes more than 670 companies, both large and small and in a variety of industries. These customers include Elsevier (publishing), Cardinal Health (healthcare), Lafarge North America (manufacturing), Akamai Technologies (information technology) and DBS Bank (financial).

As part of its SaaS offering, HP deploys experts to help customers remotely manage the performance and availability of business-critical applications. Since customers do not have to make long-term investments in technology infrastructure or staff training to use HP SaaS, it can help free up scarce IT resources to focus on other priorities. Customers can begin using software delivered through HP SaaS in a matter of weeks and, therefore, receive business benefits from their IT initiatives faster.

“HP SaaS enables customers to immediately gain the benefit of our software without significant start-up costs and training,” said Marc Olesen, vice president, Software-as-a-Service, HP. “With our BTO software offering, customers can focus on their critical IT business initiatives while HP focuses on enabling their IT organization to operate more efficiently.”

HP Business Technology Optimization solutions available through SaaS

HP Software BTO solutions that are available via SaaS today include:

Business Availability Center – Manages the health of business services and applications and optimizes their availability, performance and effectiveness.
Quality Center – Governs quality processes, automates software testing across application environments and manages the release process to enable better informed decisions.
Performance Center – Assists with the analysis and validation of application performance against business requirements and mitigates the risk associated with application deployment and upgrades.
Project and Portfolio Management Center – Standardizes, manages and captures the execution of project and operational activities, and provides critical information to assist real-time decision making.
“The value of IT management software is not derived from its deployment,” said Ray Paquet, managing vice president, Gartner. “Rather, the benefit comes from its use. Software-as-a-Service helps organizations quickly unlock the value to the business.”

Deploying HP BTO offerings via SaaS can help customers by:

Offering a pre-deployed infrastructure and team of experts;
Mitigating risk associated with installation, performance, testing and other foundation activities;
Maximizing the full value of HP software products through best practices and ongoing mentoring;
Enabling customers to focus on their business while HP runs the solution; and
Offering a choice between SaaS or on-premise deployments. For example, regardless of their organizational maturity, businesses can rapidly adopt and implement HP solutions using HP SaaS for BTO with the option to go on-premise in the future.
“Elsevier relies heavily on the performance and availability of online business services to meet the needs of our customers,” said Graham Ledger, support manager for ITSM tools at Elsevier, a leading global publisher of scientific journals in Europe. “We needed to ensure that our customers were not the first people to identify and report any performance or availability issues with critical business services. HP SaaS has given us the ability to rapidly move from monitoring ‘boxes and wires’ to the performance of our core business processes.”

“We use HP SaaS for end-user availability monitoring of numerous key internal and externally facing applications aimed at improving people’s lives,” said Don Jackson, performance engineering architect for Cardinal Health, an Ohio-based provider of products and services to the healthcare industry. “HP’s pre-deployed infrastructure and team of experts help ensure that we are notified immediately with actionable information upon critical application failures and slowdowns.”

“We were drawn to software as a service at the beginning of a major ERP project,” said Caleb Wood, vice president, enterprise infrastructure, Lafarge North America, a diversified supplier of construction materials in the U.S. and Canada. “HP SaaS provided rapid turnaround without spending time on additional infrastructure or building in-house skill sets. The decision to use SaaS instead of on-premise was obvious because we could derive the value immediately as well as enjoy the freedom of flexibility as our business and technology evolves.”

“HP helps our organization validate performance improvement and quality of doing business over the Internet,” said David Hale, solution advisor, Akamai Technologies, a Massachusetts-based service provider for accelerating content and applications online. “HP SaaS confirms that Akamai acceleration services optimize the performance and availability of our customers’ content and applications. Using a third party service like HP SaaS is an important method for reinforcing our business value.”

“In order to ensure our credit card system functions at the optimum level, we tap on HP’s quality management offerings to manage and track application defects,” said Ms Tan Hui Kheng, senior vice president, DBS Bank, a Singapore-based financial institution. “By utilizing the offerings through HP SaaS, we have been able to achieve cost and resource efficiencies, enabling us to focus on strategic projects for the business.”

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“The SaaS movement is driving new demands for identity management and Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities for multiple applications,” said Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies and Founder of the SaaS Showplace. “Ping Identity’s new certification program permits SaaS providers to obtain standards-based SSO interoperability without having to invest additional time and dollars so they can focus their resources on better serving their customers.”

According to Mike Desai, Ping Identity’s Director of Business Development and Strategic Cloud Alliances, “The Ping Certified SaaS Provider Program is designed to quickly and cost-effectively meet basic customer SaaS SSO needs, regardless of the SSO implementations that SaaS vendors may already have in place. The program also responds to sophisticated SSO connectivity requirements that are surfacing with SaaS mashups like SuccessFactor’s recently launched SuccessCloud platform, designed to connect third-party applications and data from other business systems with the SuccessFactors Business Execution Software.”

“Ping Identity already helps a number of SuccessFactors customers with SSO access to our Business Execution Software Suite,” said Tom Fisher, Vice President, Cloud Computing, SuccessFactors. “As a Ping Certified SaaS Provider, SuccessFactors can now guarantee SSO interoperability to our SuccessCloud customers for improved execution and maximized productivity and overall business performance.”

Under the terms of the Ping Certified SaaS Provider program, SaaS vendors work with Ping Identity Certification (PIC) experts to test and certify that the vendors’ SSO implementations work seamlessly with PingFederate® and PingConnect™. As a result:

• Ping Certified SaaS Providers can leverage Ping Identity technology to ensure their existing SSO solutions will interoperate with customers’ varying SSO protocol connectivity requirements.
• SaaS customers who are already using Ping Identity solutions to support their organizations’ other Internet SSO requirements can trust that Ping Certified SaaS Providers’ applications will integrate easily into their existing identity management processes.
• Ping Certified SaaS Providers can recommend Ping Identity’s SAML-based solutions for customers who don’t have SSO or who need an SSO solution that will work with the SaaS vendor’s application and the customer’s existing SSO implementations.

“As a Ping Certified SaaS Provider, Ping’s technology can work as an intermediary for customers that don’t support SAML, giving us the potential to never make any code changes again,” said Zoho Evangelist Raju Vegesna. “The program is a win-win for Zoho and our customers. Customers get solid SSO access to our tools and we stay focused on supporting them with the industry’s best online application suite.”

Ping Certified SaaS Providers receive free listings in Ping Identity’s Partner Directory, are automatically eligible to participate in Ping Identity’s referral program and have unlimited access to Ping Identity experts for assistance in on-boarding new customer connections through PingConnect, support. They also have an easy path to join Ping Identity’s SaaS Partner Program as their business requirements grow.

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