Collaboration Technology Support Center – Microsoft – Collaboration Brief September 2007 Unleash the Power of Single Sign-On with Microsoft and SAP White Paper Authors Tilo Boettcher, Microsoft Corp (
[email protected]) Juergen Daiberl, Microsoft Corp (
[email protected]) André Fischer, SAP AG (
[email protected]) Lei Liu, Spell GmbH (
[email protected]) Summary Single Sign-On (SSO) becomes more and more crucial for today’s complex IT landscape driven by the ever-increasing request to integrate existing systems to support cross-organizational business processes. In context of Identity Management, it means to bridge different authentication models used by these systems, which results in high administrative overhead as well as low usability. To enforce a consistent authentication policy throughout the enterprise and to offer simplified and homogeneous logon experience for enterprise users, Microsoft and SAP provide a set of technologies to unleash the power of SSO for enterprises. In this white paper, we review the mainstream enabling technologies for authentication as well as Single Sign-On within the Microsoft/SAP context and outline their usage in some typical scenarios on the enterprise level. Applies to . SAP NetWeaver Application Server . SAP NetWeaver Portal . SAP GUI . Microsoft .NET . Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Keywords Single Sign-On, Authentication, Federation, SAML, SAP Logon Ticket, SAP Assertion Ticket, Kerberos, CardSpace Level of difficulty Technical consultants, Architects, Developers, IT Managers Contact This document is provided to you by SAP and Microsoft to drive interoperability. Please check the .NET interoperability area in the SAP Developer Network (http://sdn.sap.com) or the SAP interoperability section in the Microsoft and SAP Customer Information Center (http://www.microsoft.com/isv/sap) for any updates or further information.