Identity and the Cloud – bullet list

• Ping Identity announced today that we have acquired the SaaS facing side of Sxip Identity, Sxip Access.  

•  This is great news for everyone working on identity related challenges in the On Demand/SaaS/Cloud computing arena.

•  Bringing together the two leading innovators in the SaaS identity space will drive the adoption of standardized identity management models in a market segment that for too long has relied on home grown, one-off, proprietary solutions.

•  This move comes at a time when SaaS adoption is skyrocketing in parallel with enterprise customer expectations for integration, security, and ease of access. 

•  With more IT shops taking an enterprise wide view (rather than a departmental view) of their SaaS usage, Ping Identity, with its full suite of identity solutions designed specifically for the SaaS model, becomes the clear market leader in delivering single sign on, provisioning and deep integration for applications hosted in the cloud.

•  SaaS leaders Salesforce.com and GoogleApps already partner with Ping Identity to help bring identity solutions to their customer base – the addition of the Sxip Access product line will further extend the value Ping Identity brings to those relationships.

• Look for an acceleration of the adoption of SAML as the foundational standard for identity solutions in the SaaS/On Demand/Cloud world.