Consistent user experience: Users do not need to remember separate credentials for each application.
Reduced effort: Your application delegates all authentication and password management to a centrally-managed service. This reduces the effort associated with creating, resetting, and protecting end-user passwords. As new technology and security requirements are introduced, changes to the infrastructure are implemented centrally.
Reduced risk: Passwords and authentication activity are centrally managed. This includes provisioning of new usernames and passwords, enforcement of rules for strength and expiration, maintaining confidentiality of passwords, monitoring for possible misuse, and disabling access if an account is compromised. Campus information security standards require you to address these issues, and with enterprise authentication services these are already built in.
Reliability: The enterprise authentication services run on redundant servers and network paths. Staff are on call 24/7 to respond to issues.
Flexibility: There are many options available to fit the specific authentication requirements and technology of each application.
Standardization: The authentication infrastructure options are following best practices that are in use at hundreds of universities, corporations, and other organizations. Many applications and technologies have already been integrated using these same standards.
