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We love being an open company, and we're constantly working to provide more value to our customers and prospects. As of this morning, all of our PingFederate and PingFederate Web Services user manuals and documentation are now available for FREE & IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD (PDF format). Enjoy
“Enterprises are beginning to require identity and active directory integration with their SaaS providers. Recognizing this, we've worked closely with the SaaS community to provide the identity federation and Internet single sign-on solutions their enterprise customers are demanding," said Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand. "Today, more than half of our existing SaaS customers have joined the SaaS Partner Program, further validating the use of standards and SAML as the security protocol of choice when it comes to Internet single sign-on."
We got some great quotes from our partners.
“Ping Identity allows us to meet our customers’ requirements for industry-proven SSO solutions that scale quickly and easily as their access requirements change and grow,” said Rideau Director of Infrastructure Technology Daniel Guerard. “The program aligns perfectly with our business model, creating an additional revenue stream with little to no upfront costs.”
“Joining the Ping Identity SaaS Partner Program was a no brainer,” said WageWorks Principal Architect James Yang. “Many of our customers today expect standards-based single sign-on access to work with our applications. The Ping Identity SaaS Partner Program allows us to easily provide customers with the industry’s most trusted SSO solution.”
"The Ping Identity SaaS Partner Program maps nicely to our sales model,” said Axentis CTO Dean Baumann. “The program allows us to easily provide customers with the industry’s most trusted SSO solution.”
“Partnering with Ping Identity to offer standards-based single sign-on is a win-win for PriceMetrix and our clients,” said J. Cory Weech, Vice President, Technology, CISO, PriceMetrix. “In addition to simplifying access to our ValueOne practice management toolset for investment professionals, we can also help our clients address their SSO requirements with PingFederate.”
A few months back, we added PingFederate to SignOn.com, giving the service basic SAML single sign-on capabilities. One of the reasons we did this was that we wanted to make it easier for people to demonstrate Auto-Connect, a feature built into PingFederate which eliminated the need for manual SAML configuration. In the past month, we've worked to complete that demonstration, which can now be found at http://autoconnect.pingidentity.com.
Instructions
Step 1: Go to SignOn.com and create an account.
Step 2: Enable Google Apps for your account via My Account (more details here. This will give you an email address e.g. joe@signon.com.
Step 3: Go to http://autoconnect.pingidentity.com, type in your SignOn.com email address and click ‘Sign In’. You will be redirected to SignOn.com for authentication and then SSO to autoconnect.pingidentity.com.
For all the technical background, Ashish has written up full details here.
Not that we don’t appreciate awards, but we haven't spent much time pursuing them. That said, when a customer like Morgan Stanley, at an internal event, selects you and your product as helping to transform their business, and prior winners include VMware (2005 winner), and you are the only one selected out of some 200 companies that year, well, that's special. Only 5 companies have ever received this award.
Every year, Morgan Stanley receives 200 applications from companies to present at the Morgan Stanley CTO Summit. We presented back in 2006. A year or so later, Morgan Stanley became a customer, using our technology to secure and integrate their employees use of on-demand applications such as Salesforce.com.
With respect to the award, Morgan Stanley internally votes on which of those 200 companies get to present and then sends out only 36 invites. Of these 36, only four (roughly 12% ever go to contract) and of those, only one receives this award. The award is given to those companies that provide innovation that holds the potential to transform their business into the future. On a more personal note, it's great to finally see federation receive the recognition it deserves for enabling companies to secure their virtual borders, especially in an era where SaaS is the new delivery platform for enterprise applications. Thank you Morgan Stanley for giving Ping the opportunity to work with you. Thank you Ping Identians for building and supporting such a stellar product.
After receiving the award, Patrick Harding, Ping's CTO had a photo opp with Jonathan Saxe, Managing Director, Global Chief Information Officer of Morgan Stanley
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I love getting emails like this from our customers. This one came in this morning.
"We’re currently setting up our PingFederate environment, things are going well. Since we announced the introduction of federation services, my phone won’t stop ringing ;-)
...As we said last time you were here, we’re interested in a more strategic, long-term alignment with you, not just a customer and vendor relationship."
Suffice it to say, Ping engineers are now swarming in and out of Ping, many times virtually. They sync, then work, then sync, then work. It's really cool to watch, and it's a new world within Engineering here at Ping. The new program goes quite nicely with our MacBook Pro handouts this past year, the only problem being, I now have a bunch of unused 30" Cinema displays here at the office most days, and I likely need to buy additional 30" displays for people to take home. All of this comes in a nick of time with gas exceeding $4/gallon.
There's not doubt that removing geography from the work-force equation holds incredible potential for gains in efficiency and productivity. Not only can you now hire the best (no matter where they live), but you can also remove the time and expense associated with costly travel, improving quality of life and reducing stress while allowing your people to achieve greater balance between family and work.
We recently had one of our engineers move to Estonia, to realize a dream of European travel and adventure while working for Ping. Matt Peterson arrived in Estonia a week or so ago. He's not on sabbatical, he's swarming. Here are a few pictures from his first week.
I did a 65 mile bike ride last Sunday with 7,000 of my closest friends. Today I got an email listing highlights and photos and noticed they placed me #2 in their photo journal of the event. I can’t figure out why?
Now only if I were #2 in the race instead of #2222.
One of them responded. "I’d love to but, I think the product pretty much rocks as is, and I’m on vacation with the family."
Have a great vacation. We'll keep rock'n.
One of the benefits of federation is the expectations for success are often aligned with a single connection. How do you climb mountains? One step at a time. I like this trend.
Here a Ping, we proudly call Colorado home (along with Boston, Vancouver and the UK – but those are another blog post), so I thought I would take a moment to clear up come common misconceptions:
- We do not ride our horses to work everyday. Only Friday is designated as "Ride Trigger to Work Day".
- We do not listen to John Denver at parties. That is reserved for private time at home, maybe singing "Sunshine On My Shoulders" in the shower.
- We are not all Bronco fans. Some of us are fans of the Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rockies, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Crush, Colorado Mammoth, Colorado Outlaws or Colorado Rapids. Yes, that makes 8 professional sports teams!
- We are not all Birkenstock wearing Hippy wannabe's. That is reserved for those who attended the University of Colorado and could never bring themselves to leave Boulder.
A few cool things to come out of Colorado recently:
- Crocs - Who doesn't need a pair of pink rubber shoes with big holes?
- Chipotle - If not in your town yet, my condolences.
- The Fray - Although I must admit, if I hear "How to Save a Life" one more time, the radio is going out the window!
- Ping Identity - If you’re into that seamless SSO solutions sort of thing.
Colorado is truly a spectacular place to live or visit. But don't just take my word for it...
Come see for yourself and while you're at it, come see us at the first ever Single SignOn Summit taking place in Keystone Colorado on July 23-25 (www.ssosummit.com). I look forward to seeing you there!
Yours truly,
Andre Durand
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