What are the advantages of SAML?
SAML benefits a diverse group. It allows security systems and application software to be developed and evolve independently. This is because SAML provides a set of interoperable standard interfaces. Standardizing the interfaces between systems allows for faster, cheaper, and more reliable integration. As more profiles of SAML usage are developed, these benefits will be opened up to more and different kinds of access management. Producers of security software benefit by having standard schemas and protocols for expressing security information. Application developers benefit by decoupling their software from the underlying security infrastructure. Finally, end users benefit because SAML promotes single sign-on (the ability to use a variety of Internet resources without having to log in repeatedly) and a more personalized user experience that can nonetheless be made privacy-friendly.
