OpenSSO Enterprise Released after End to End Testing

By now you've read all about the full Release of OpenSSO, this week. Other than the fact that this is one of the most powerful federated access management system out there in the market today, with all its capabilities in terms of features and extensibility of the product (in terms of integration perspectives); there are certain key aspects of this release that Communication, Media and Entertainment (CME) industry needs;

• This Enterprise Release is thoroughly tested (see QA blogs)
  
• Already in production for some key customers
  
• Benchmarks being produced for a Billion Identities (Identity entries) and a Million Policies
• Pre-integrated with HA solutions (in conjunction with the built in HA capability)
• and an Update is planned for early 2009

this update will include;

• carrier-grade monitoring,
• more ease-of-use work,
• entitlement management (centralized PMP which allows for the management of multiple PDP's, many PEP's and a few PCP's)
  
• and Integration into Sun RM and IDM services (via workflows and an ESB)
• task flows for SaaS federation (think Google and Salesforce.com federation setup with the absolute minimum number of clicks)

In order to execute on the Integrated Identity System Stack; Sun organization has folded under one VP that includes development and engineering teams of OpenSSO, Sun RM, Sun IDM, Sun Compliance Manager, etc. We already have integration in terms of all these products working together (all of them run on Sun Application Server Container and can use MySQL as the database repository, plus DSEE/OpenDS for Identity and profile repository).

I know that many CME's in the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and APAC are already testing and piloting OpenSSO as an upgrade now for 2009 deployments. This will be the system that expands Federated Identity deployments (that offered SSO) to Fedearted Policies and Federated Context for a Single User Experience.