Enterprise Solutions
Web integration of identity data and operations
Are you are an enterprise that makes extensive leverage of web services and applications? With NimbusDS you can simplify the integration of identity data and operations across your entire web ecosystem, saving development time and promoting agility.
- Once deployed within the enterprise, Json2Ldap can seamlessly serve LDAP directory data, search and authentication to web services and applications, within your corporate intranet, across the web and in the cloud.
- Ajax-style web applications can utilise JsonSSO for unified sign-on and session management.
- With AuthService and Json2Ldap users can be provisioned and authenticated to remote cloud and SaaS applications.
Below we give a more detailed view of these solutions.
LDAP for the web
LDAP v3 has been the established network protocol for accessing a directory, but it's binary and cannot be used over the web. Fortunately, there is now Json2Ldap, a web service that can be coupled to any LDAP directory such Active Directory, Novell eDirectory and OpenLDAP. Its elegant JSON API covers the whole spectrum of directory usage, from authentication, searches and updates to things like schema queries and extended operations.
With Json2Ldap you can access your enterprise directory
- from your web services and applications, on-premise and in the cloud;
- from JavaScript code running in the browser using regular XHR / Ajax calls (cross-origin calls are supported via W3C CORS);
- from any mobile device with web connectivity.
Take a look at our online Json2Ldap demo featuring a simple web employee directory, authenticator and a group membership resolver. The demo is written in HTML + JavaScript and makes Ajax calls to a Json2Ldap-coupled directory hosted in the cloud.
You can also have a look at other Json2Ldap application suggestions, such as mashups, web address books and RIAs.
JSON web service for Single Sign-On (SSO) and shared session management
JsonSSO is a nimble web service for supplying Single Sign-On (SSO) and session management to modern Ajax / Web 2.0 applications which combine bits of data and services from multiple sources, often residing on different domains. The case is simple: Monolithic web apps are rather cumbersome; the wise approach to staying scalable, efficient and sexy is by adhering to an architecture where a rich web UI, often pluggable, calls upon an array of lightly coupled web services, each with its own precisely scoped job and API.
JsonSSO authenticates users against an LDAPv3 compatible directory, such as Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory or OpenLDAP, through the Json2Ldap gateway / proxy.
User provisioning to applications in the cloud
You have brilliant plans for moving your applications to the cloud. But how do you link back to their user accounts in your enterprise directory? We are here to provide you with a bridge - two nimble web APIs for user provisioning, handled by our AuthService and Json2Ldap software.
An on-premise instance of AuthService or Json2Ldap can authenticate cloud application users against your internal LDAP directory and release selected provisionging details, such as name, email address and group memberships.
