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Article: Google Apps: A Simple, Hosted On-Demand Offering; Review: eWEEK Labs found Google Apps to be a simple, hosted on-demand offering that can be used with nothing more than a PC with a Web browser.
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- eWeek
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- June 12, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright (c) 2007 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. Originally appearing in eWEEK.com. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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On its own, Google Apps is a simple, hosted on-demand offering that requires no additional hardware or software beyond a PC with a Web browser.
Enabling Google Apps for SSO (single sign-on) via SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) definitely ups the ante in terms of IT resources that must be available to an organization. However, in exchange for the additional IT investment, extending Google Apps in this way saves users time logging in to the system and gives administrators one fewer user list to track.
SAML is an XML security standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. Google Apps offers optional SAML-based authentication and authorization ...