Friday, 14 December 2007
Rearden Commerce achieves 45 SAML Connections!
Industry
- Web Commerce
About Rearden Commerce
Rearden Commerce, Inc. provides the first online personal assistant, that helps people quickly find, purchase and manage services for travel planning, dining
reservations, package shipping, web conferencing, event tickets, and more, based on personal preferences and company policies. Rearden Commerce instantly
connects users with over 137,000 merchants, providing the tools people need to access and manage services, like calendar and address book integration, email
invites, and mobile alerts.
Challenge
Scaling infrastructure across the enterprise of a company experiencing 3,000% growth and beyond to 1000+ SMB to Fortune 50 corporate customers
in order to securely share applications
Solution
- PingFederate®
Technical Environment
- Java, running on Linux Blade servers
Benefits
With Federated Identity Management, Rearden Commerce now enables its corporate customers to leverage existing identity systems, maintain control over
credentials, manage all policies and allow users to easily and securely interact with service providers.
Results
- PingFederate deployed in just 2 weeks.
- Within 1 month, federation was complete with fifteen companies, securely supporting 10%-20% of user sessions.
- Management of federation, single sign-on and password management transitioned out of core engineering at a faster than expected pace.
- Activation/configuration groups are now self-sufficient.
