HIMSS Analytics specializes in IT research for the healthcare industry and for the past 17 years, it has conducted an annual study called the "Leadership Survey." The latest one asked about single sign-on and included the remarkable finding that "79% of IT executives ranked SSO/identity management as the highest priority for the next two years."
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Novell has sponsored HIMSS to publish a document based on the findings entitled "Things To Consider When Evaluating An Enterprise Single Sign-On Solution" (PDF). It's useful not only for those in healthcare but for anyone looking to reduce significantly the number of logins their users have to do during the course of their business day.
Novell recognized early on that healthcare was ripe for this technology when it released earlier this year the Novell Clinical Workstation, a product bundle that leverages identity management technologies and integration tools to effectively connect disparate clinical applications and back-end systems and deliver information to medical personnel at the right time and the right place. Clinical Workstation ensures fast, secure, role- and location-based access to key clinical and business applications, giving healthcare organizations the capability to deliver next generation clinical desktops on a variety of devices.
Among the key features of the Novell Clinical Workstation, relevant to the HIMSS study, are:
* Quick login/logout of workstations, measured in only a few seconds, not minutes.
* Strong authentication methods, for example, biometrics and proximity, to protect data.
* Single sign-on to most target applications.
* Cross-platform support for mainframe, fat/thin client, and Web applications.
* Centralized management of passwords and user IDs.
* Support for multiple devices, including wireless, PCs, laptops and PDAs.
I wrote about the product when it was released, and as I mentioned at the time, SSO isn't only relevant to healthcare, so everyone should be looking for opportunities to simplify their users' sign-on situation.
Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be found at Virtual Quill.
Kearns is the author of two Network World Newsletters: Windows Networking Strategies, and Identity Management. Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these respective addresses: windows@vquill.com, identity@vquill.com .
Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books, manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing, technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail.
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