Transverse LLC deepens SaaS cloud integration and security with its June 2011 enhancements to TRACT™—the comprehensive, real-time subscription and usage-based rating and billing solution in a SaaS model. With the adoption of SAML-based Single-Sign-On (SSO), Transverse further strengthens its Dynamic Revenue Management and subscription billing capabilities. TRACT users will now be able to connect to what can potentially be thousands of SaaS offerings without the headaches of multiple log-ons and passwords.

AHA shares how its hybrid cloud architecture using Symplified for authentication and Socialtext software improved communications and business processes... The AHA system uses the enterprise social network from Socialtext.

In the wake of heightened security concerns across the IT landscape, SAP AG has introduced the SAP NetWeaver® Single Sign-On application for increased protection of customer data across applications. The software is based on assets that SAP acquired from longtime partner SECUDE in February 2011. Customers using several software systems need to enter different credentials when moving from one to another. This can lead to the simplification or overuse of a single password, thereby weakening the security of the system landscape.

WiKID is teaming up with Atricore, the open source identity management company, to combine open source single sign on with open source two factor authentication. Atricore are the developers of the JOSSO (Java Single Sign On) project which with support for SAML and other standards has become a widely used technology in the identity management space. SAML works with Federated Identity to allow disparate business applications both within and across corporate boundaries to work seamlessly. Atricore offers several versions of JOSSO.

Targeted squarely at the consumerization of IT trend exploding in workplaces worldwide, VMware Tuesday unveiled its Horizon App Manager. The management service, priced at $30 a user, is the first component to ship as part of the unified, virtual workspace vision the company unveiled as "Project Horizon" last summer.."It extends and it federates," said Noah Wasmer, VMware director of advanced development.