Three Ways to Integrate Active Directory with Your Saas Applications

The adoption rate of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications has been dramatic. The tendency of SaaS applications to be siloed has made managing user access and authorization an increasing challenge. The task of onboarding users is a time-intensive, manual process that involves administrators across multiple departments, which can introduce risk. Additionally, in most enterprises, Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is the authoritative user directory that governs access to basic IT services such as email and file sharing. Read this whitepaper to learn the three different options for integrating Active Directory with your SaaS applications.
Get Whitepaper

Top 8 Identity & Access Management Challenges with Your Saas Applications

With the exploding adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, enterprise IT is fundamentally changing. While on-demand services provide tremendous ROI, they also introduce new challenges that must be overcome to truly capitalize on their potential. Identity management problems such as controlling who is granted access to which applications and data and how to control access to these applications leveraging on premise directories such as Active Directory, have become increasingly important. Single Sign-On and user management solutions that are optimized for the cloud are necessary to help address these challenges. This whitepaper presents the eight biggest identity and access management (IAM) challenges associated with adopting and deploying cloud and SaaS applications, and discusses best practices for addressing each of them.
Get Whitepaper

Banking On Analytics Financial Services Count On A Consolidated, Secure Platform For Real-time Analytics

This Forrester thought leadership paper provides Business Analytics and Data Warehousing owners and influencers the insight they need to enable them to more efficiently plan and execute on a successful Business Analytics Strategy. The paper is purposed to drive awareness and engagement for new prospects, as well as existing customers. The paper will be behind registration so that customer/reader information may be captured; we look for visitors to take steps deeper into their buyer's journey.
Get Whitepaper

Private Clouds Will Use Hybrid Infrastructure- The Role Of Mainframes In Cloud: To Meet The Full Range Of Reliability And Security Needs

This paper looks at the requirements of the next generation of applications moving to the cloud. The paper discusses cloud customers' desire for a greater infrastructure choice and openness to hybrid infrastructures. The paper concluded shtt hybrid cloud infrastructures are inevitable, particularly for private environments. Hybrid clouds deliver higher values with high compute density, yielding strong cost efficiency for applicable workloads.
Get Whitepaper

PureFlex-Next Smart Step in Enterprise IT Evolution

More and more organizations are getting by just supporting data center status quo. However utilizing the majority of IT budgets to just keep data center lights on is crippling todays IT and strangling hopes of capturing future benefits. By just keeping pace how will you be able to meet the changing needs of tomorrow?
Get Whitepaper

Protect Your IT System with Next Generation Security

A data breach, probing hackers, protect your critical IT information. What these real-life examples have in common is that perpetrators can attack companies through their IT systems. Read how trusted computing from IBM PureFlex System can help secure your systems against emerging threats.
Get Whitepaper

Workload Optimized, Pre-Integrated Server/Storage

In this Advisory, Clabby Analytics takes a closer look at a class of servers known as pre integrated servers. These types of servers are usually assembled by information systems vendors that have deep system/subsystem knowledge, giving them the ability to highly integrate a systems central processing unit (CPU) with underlying subsystems (memory, storage, input/output [I/O]). The end result of this deep integration is an extremely high performance system design upon which a variety of workloads can be mounted.
Get Whitepaper

Serving the Cloud by TBR

An analysis and perspective from leading IT Industry analysts, Technology Business Research (TBR) on how x86 servers and the implementation of private clouds offer a secure and cost-effective means for midmarket to reduce costs and provide flexible computing capacity.
Get Whitepaper