Why is there a very slow adoption of SAML within packaged applications?
This was selected as Best Answer The identity management industry is moving away from allowing individual applications managing the identities of their users to centralized identity management solutions. In this case, the management of the identity is abstracted to an independent layer above the packaged applications and they become consumers of the ID Mgt applications. Additionally, developers of packaged applications don’t want to devote their precious resources to developing solutions for which differentiation is difficult to establish and outside of their core competency. Finally, as the IDM marketplace is maturing, most of the package applications that require enterprise ID awareness are capable of interfacing with SAML compliant IDM solutions like Sun IDM, TAM, HP,… Let the IDM handle the SAML transaction into your environment, and then allow the application to perform its business function. One should also note that while SAML is technically achievable, there still remain a si
