Federation

Enterprise SSO

Enterprise SSO is a legacy SSO model where a local component detects application login screens and injects credentials on behalf of the user.

Acronym
eSSO
Synonym
eSSO

Definition

Enterprise SSO, or eSSO, is a login automation approach in which a local client component recognizes application windows and supplies stored credentials to them. It was designed to simplify user access to legacy applications that do not support modern federation patterns.

The Ariovis perspective

Federation is an architecture choice, not a product checkbox. Ariovis assesses protocols, trust relationships, application constraints and migration paths before defining the target.

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