Top 10 Cost Cutting Benefits of Cloud & Web Security
March 2009
Organizations
are depending on IT like never before to help navigate through today’s
economic crisis. Adopting cloud delivered technology allows an
organization to cut costs and reduce staffing needs. Smart enterprises
are leveraging intelligent, next generation Web and Cloud Access
Management saving millions of dollars, extending IT budgets and getting
more done with less.
Here’s 10 ways Cloud and Web Access Management saves real dollars:
1. Focus on your core competency.
Symplified empowers an organization to remain laser focused on IT
initiative that relate to the core of their business competency. The
efficiencies associated with outsourcing non-core IT functions are
undeniable, freeing up budget and resources and allowing your IT staff
to focus on the innovation of revenue producing systems. If you no
longer want to be bogged down by being in the identity management
business, then Symplified is here to help.
2. Reduce cost of your core IAM platform by 80%.
Symplified delivers more capabilities than first generation identity
products like SiteMinder, Oracle, Sun and ClearTrust – for
approximately the cost of annual software maintenance alone. Plus
Symplified allows you to address a complete WAM solution for both
on-premise and hosted SaaS apps. Symplified has dramatically lowered
upfront costs, predictable subscription pricing, faster deployment and
integration. Why pay more than you have to for WAM?
3. Reduce operational costs.
SSO cuts helpdesk and support costs, increases SaaS application
adoption, makes your users happier and more productive through an
improved user experience. With Symplified you can reduce the number of
accounts and passwords that IT has to support. IDC reports SSO projects
often deliver a 95% reduction in service desk calls - fewer user ID
inquiries and fewer password resets.
4. Quantifiable financial benefits.
The analyst at Forrester Research found implementing Web SSO provided
demonstrable financial results. Forrester found that improved data
management saves enterprises $350 per user per year. Also, reduced
development of security features and user management save $12,000 per
application and general support improvements of $70,000 per year.
5. Cut costs related to demonstrating compliance.
Compliance is a fact of life in today’s enterprise. Optimizing the time
and money needed to demonstrate compliance saves significant money and
resources. Symplified provides centralized access and authentication,
improving consistency, reducing risk and enhancing security. Auditors
have a single point of audit to verify policies and activity relating
to sensitive data on both sides of the firewall meaning shorter audit
cycles and lower costs.
6. Reduce your carbon footprint.
Symplified eliminates your IAM hardware footprint and data center
costs. Our high performance Cloud Scale™ architecture means no need to
manage, power and house excessive equipment. Such carbon reduction
footprint efforts are good for the environment and good for your
organizations bottom line.
7. Cost effectively implement portals.
Whether customer, partner or employee facing, Web portals have been
proven to streamline collaboration, supply chains and simplify Intranet
access. Portals provide the IT team with a high visibility win that
makes users happy and builds momentum for other IT efforts. With
Symplified Access you can provide secure personalized access and SSO
for multiple Web applications deploying quickly and extending existing
commercial or open source portal CMS.
8. Reduce the cost of scaling your Web infrastructure.
Managing user populations with diverse access levels can be
complicated. Symplified solves this with simple policies that leverage
your existing Active Directory, LDAP, SQL - securing custom Web apps as
well as commercial apps like SAP and SharePoint. Centralizing Web
identity infrastructure into a re-useable architecture easily secures
multiple Web applications. No more reinventing the wheel with every new
Web app.
9. Cut the costs and complexity of home grown WAM.
Using a commercial IAM solution instead of building a homegrown system
saves your enterprise hundreds of thousands of dollars of custom coding
and integration, enabling your team to focus on innovation not
maintenance and to go live quickly. Who will support and enhance a
custom-built SSO or access control system? Does your homegrown system
have a future roadmap or is it a ‘just enough’ effort that doesn’t
scale and isn’t extensible?
10. Reduce administrative costs.
As your user community grows, user management workload also increases.
Extending existing Active Directory and LDAP user repositories to Web
applications automates user access and authentication.
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