Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Salesforce.com adds support for SAML
Salesforce.com just announced that their new Summer '08 release supports SAML for Secure Internet SSO.
Given Google already supports SAML, this is another data point that points to a trend towards universal SAML adoption for enterprise SaaS applications. To their credit, Salesforce.com have listened to their enterprise customers who increasingly expect their SaaS vendors to support open, interoperable standards. Even more important is that Salesforce.com already have a proprietary SSO scheme, but realize that a standards based approach for SSO is the future blueprint for On Demand software.
We served as a design partner to Salesforce.com and PingFederate is interoperable with the SFDC implementation. I personally had a great experience working with the Salesforce.com product team on best practices around SAML.
