UnboundID (News - Alert), a provider of identity data solutions for cloud, telco, and enterprise computing, has released commercially available products based on the Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) standard.
Steve Coplan, senior analyst for enterprise security practice at The 451 Group (News - Alert), said that UnboundID’s support of the SCIM specification in its new products enables organizations to take advantage of the benefits of a protocol designed to reduce duplicative, one-off integrations and leverage a consolidated data store to automate the provisioning process.
Coplan said that as adoption of SaaS (News - Alert) applications within organizations extends beyond a single, monolithic application, organizations require a centralized and data-driven approach to managing authorization to a new class of applications.
“With the integration of SCIM, UnboundID has taken a step in the direction of providing the underlying data and attribute store to support that transition to cloud identity catalyzed by shifts in the IT consumption model,” Coplan said.
UnboundID supports the SCIM to provide a standardized and simpler solution for organizations provisioning and managing user identities across multiple cloud-based services such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings.
Thanks to the UnboundID’s SCIM-enabled directory server, developers can build scalable and secure directory applications using simple, REST-based interfaces.
Additionally, UnboundID has also announced its plans to release an extension to its Synchronization Server, which makes it possible to synchronize identity data from existing data stores such as Active Directory, LDAP and relational databases--to SCIM-enabled cloud applications such as like SalesForce.com.
As a destination for its synchronization server, the company has supported SCIM-enabled data stores, delivering a complete solution for integrating identity data from on-premise data stores with SCIM-enabled cloud-based services.
Company officials said that UnboundID is positioned to provide solutions for both sides of the cloud identity integration problem. This includes a solution for synchronizing data from on-premise identity data stores to the cloud and a high-scale identity data store that supports a RESTful, standards-based interface for cloud service providers.
Austin, Texas based UnboundID is a provider of real-time identity management software for cloud, mobile and social applications.
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