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The Trust Cloud's Benefits  
After many man-years of dedicated engineering to weave SinglePoint into Amazon EC2, the Trust Cloud enables businesses to provision an instance of their web apps in any secure data center across the globe and tap into the Trust Cloud’s IAM capabilities. The Symplified Trust Cloud dramatically alters the cost and complexity of deploying identity and access management. It also secures cloud apps with faster performance. The Symplified Trust Cloud was built on the following principles:
  • No proprietary lock-in – zero barrier to exit and ability to easily move on-premises
  • Supports the cloud, fully and completely
  • Leverages the advantages of all that Amazon EC2 offers as a $2 billion platform
  • Scales infinitely, elastically and reliably
  • Makes location of infrastructure, apps and users transparent
  • Simplifies the effort to enable SAML federation
No proprietary lock-in
The Symplified Trust Cloud was designed to be the simplest and easiest way to roll out IAM for both Amazon EC2-hosted apps as well as SaaS apps. We recognize that today many organizations are cautiously approaching the cloud and have concerns about becoming locked into a particular vendor’s platform and losing the power of choice. We believe strongly that our platform should be as easy to migrate off of as onto. This completely aligns our goals with yours. Once you work with Symplified you’ll see that while our technology is second to none; our expert support is what keeps our customers happy and successful. To that end the Symplified Trust Cloud was designed to:
  • Not use agent software or plug-ins which means you can integrate the Trust Cloud without brittle custom code or proprietary software. Symplified never installs software on the web browser – which means easy support for ‘external’ users like customers and partners.
  • Virtualize user data and access it when needed thus eliminating the expense and complexity of migrating or consolidating directories or databases. With the Trust Cloud you always own your data. In fact, it is never stored on the Trust Cloud. If you decide to leave the Trust Cloud, there’s no migration issue.
  • Support standards like SAML, LDAP, SOAP, HTTP, SQL, and REST enabling easy integration and avoiding the need to change or customize your apps.
  • Deploy the Symplified Trust Cloud in hours with only a simple network configuration so you can easily try it out and move from trial to production smoothly.
Symplified Trust Cloud Architecture
Supports the cloud fully and completely
Symplified was founded to solve the complex problems that moving to the cloud creates. We believe that the cloud presents one of the most disruptive and beneficial evolutions in computing. Many companies are going completely server-less and moving all their applications to the cloud. Building on our unmatched experience as the first pure-play cloud trust, identity and access management provider, we have built the most complete solution for the cloud, delivered over the cloud and integrated with the cloud. What sets Symplified apart from last-generation enterprise IAM software providers?
  • Only Symplified can integrate with Salesforce or Google and utilize their user directories. If you have chosen to use Gmail or Salesforce then you are already managing identities in those platforms. With the Trust Cloud you can easily authenticate, authorize and personalize the experience using data in the cloud.
  • Symplified was the first and continues to have the broadest set of supported SaaS applications for federated SSO and access.
  • Only Symplified offers pure pay as you grow subscription pricing that reflects the on-demand nature of the cloud.
  • No other company has more experience operating an IAM platform and trust broker. Period.
Leverages advantages of all that Amazon EC2 offers as a $2 billion cloud platform
Amazon has invested billions into the EC2 platform; far more than almost any enterprise has in their own data centers. Symplified has been using Amazon EC2 internally for several years and over time has experienced the benefits of one of the most powerful compute platforms in the world. Amazon has continually refined its technology and reach of the EC2 platform. Symplified has committed to leveraging these strengths to make the Trust Cloud the most scalable, secure and reliable platform available. With the Symplified Trust Cloud you can easily:
  • Deploy in any one of the 30+ Amazon EC2 availability zones
  • Leverage Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancing sticky session capability for scale out
  • Leverage different sizes of EC2 AMIs to fit your budget and performance needs
  • Tap the power of the Amazon Simple DB as a user repository
Scales infinitely, elastically and reliably
Performance and availability are critical in the cloud. With the Symplified Trust Cloud you can achieve levels of performance that previously would have required hundreds of thousands of dollars from high end servers. Built upon the Amazon EC2 self-healing compute platform, the Symplified Trust Cloud can offer unprecedented uptime and availability. Building a comparable redundant, monitored and expertly staffed data center on the level that you get with the Symplified Trust Cloud is simply beyond the reach of 99% of enterprises. The Symplified Trust Cloud provides:
Scales infinitely, elastically and reliably
  • 99.995% uptime availability guaranteed with a Service Level Agreement
  • The capability to monitor the health and performance of the Symplified Trust Cloud through a browser
  • High availability options (through Symplified professional services) that offer sophisticated load balanced deployments
Makes location of infrastructure, apps and users transparent
Today, most organizations have IT spread across both internal networks and increasingly on the cloud. Migrating apps, data or infrastructure from one to the other is expensive and often unnecessary if you could simply access it securely where it resides. To this end Symplified has architected the Trust Cloud to provide a transparency layer that abstracts the location of apps, infrastructure and users. With the Symplified Trust Cloud:
  • Users can gain secure SSO whether they are inside the company network, working from home, from a mobile device or from an airport. All that’s needed is a web browser.
  • User repositories – like Active Directory, LDAP or databases – can be inside the corporate network or even in the cloud as with Salesforce or Google.
  • Applications can be hosted on Amazon EC2, inside your data center or delivered in the cloud as SaaS apps.
Dramatically simplifies the effort to enable
SAML federation
Let’s face it. ‘SAML enabling’ apps is difficult and many organization simply lack budget, infrastructure, skills, and time to do this. Enterprises have to create one-to-one connections and service providers have to deal with a one-off federation project each time a customer asks for it. And you have to wait for your partner or SaaS provider to support SAML.
SAML Federation

The Symplified Trust Cloud dramatically simplifies the effort to enable SAML federation. There is no need to install new federation software. SinglePoint puts SAML into all your EC2 apps. And Symplified offers a pre-integrated federation hub for SSO across multiple apps. Symplified can federate with any SAML app and also with HTTP-FED can integrate with virtually any SaaS app. The Symplified Trust Cloud offers a better way:
  • Leverage the SinglePoint Trust and Integration Broker and ‘connect once to integrate an ecosystem’ of dozens of popular SaaS apps.
  • Offload federation to the Trust Cloud proxy where all SAML validation, decoding and complexity is dealt with. Your apps get the authenticated, validated user session passed into it through industry standards HTTP headers.
  • Extend SSO to the widest range of apps with either SAML 1.1, 2.0 or HTTP-FED 1.1.
 
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