You can now download free toolkits and reference implementations for service providers which will integrate with Identity Providers supporting the open SAML 2.0 standard. The toolkits and associated reference implementations implements the Danish eGov OIOSAML 2.0 profile and can be downloaded from the open source repository. The purpose of these toolkits is twofold. For a service provider that does not use a standard product for integration, the toolkits makes it quicker and easier to integrate with Danish public sector solutions like the citizen portal (Borger.dk) and the Business-to-Government portal (Virk.dk). Further, using the toolkits will also lower the development cost associated with this integration. With the toolkits, it is possible to have citizens and employees login to a web solution and simultaneously achieve single sign on to other solutions in the same federation. Instead of developing similar functionality from scratch, a public authority can save months of development work by using one of the released toolkits.

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