Organisations offering support to institutions to participate in the UK federation
The following members have informed the federation operator that they offer services in this area. The federation operator cannot comment on their quality or suitability, either in general or for any particular application. Members considering using a service must satisfy themselves, through discussions with the supplier, that it meets their particular requirements.
Any other organisations offering appropriate services who would like to be added to the list, please submit details to the federation helpdesk with the relevant information for the sections outlined below.
| Service | Contact Details |
|---|---|
| 9Star Research provides end to end Shibboleth and SAML open standards based federated identity and access management solutions. We offer industry leading Shiboleth/SAML based SSO and access management solutions for the Microsoft Share Point 2007 platform. The solution offerings include widely deployed products such asActiveShareFS 2007,ProntoFS, SAM 2009 and Shibboleth/SAML professional services. Our ProtectNetwork SaaS service (a member of UK federation) is extensively used as an outsourced Shibboleth/SAML based identity provider service on the Internet. | 9Star Research Sales+1 (512) 553 5110 |
| Essington Computer Consultancy Ltd offers a complete consultancy package to help you understand and implement the many benefits of the UK federation. We offer onsite installations, pre and post consultancy plus all the usual support services and training. We have many years of experience of the technology involved based upon open source software, thus reducing your costs. We can offer physical, virtual onsite or hosted solutions with complete support. Reference sites offered upon application. | Andrew G Morris07906 302791 |
| IAM Federated Ltd specialises in providing expert resource in the field of Federated Identity and Federated Access Management. Through our extensive associate network of the world's leading IDM professionals we can offer your project full time and interim resource solutions with a high level of expertise in your chosen solution. We offer developers, architects, Project and Programme management, requirement analysis and consultancy services to suit your project. Competitive pricing, responsive and experts in our field. Specialised in all of the major Identity and Access solutions and experts in SAML 1.0 – 2.0 & Shibboleth - Oracle, Sun, IBM, HP, RSA, CA and Ping Solutions. | Matt Allen07921 256773 |
| Identity ConnectsTM Federation uses a vendor independent approach which provides a complete Identity and Access Management suite. Our Identity Federation solutions enable trusted identity across partner, supplier and customer organisations and systems. Identity ConnectsTM Federation solutions are proven to: * Bridge segregated silos of identity systems to provide secure cross-boundary interactions. * Enable single sign-on across security domains. * Achieve closer relationships, improve customer service, accelerate execution of business partnerships and alliances; as well as reduce costs. Identity ConnectsTM from Enline plc has been used as a framework for successful Identity and Access Management projects for ten years, delivering business and user benefit, compliance and a sustainable solution to Identity and Access Management. | Email Enquiries 0844 800 1985 |
| IDM Integration has been working for over 10 years solving identity management problems for a wide variety of organizations, from policy and procedures to software implementation. IDM Integration is focused on creating highly available custom Shibboleth® services that are integrated with a customer's existing authentication and authorization systems. We can handle all types of SP and IdP installations, integration, and customizations, as well as quality assurance and support for the Shibboleth® product. | Email Enquiries +1 (740)331-4481 |
| OpenAthens is a framework of software and services that enables institutions to outsource their identity provision and provides supported membership of the UK Access Management Federation. It enables institutions to participate in the Federation while continuing to enjoy the support associated with the current Athens service. Engaging with Shibboleth-based federations through OpenAthens also allows seamless transition from your existing Athens service. OpenAthens is managed by Eduserv, a not-for-profit organisation supporting learning and research. | Email Technical enquiries 01225 474333All other enquiries 01225 474307 |
| Overt Software Solutions Ltd Offers a full range of "Federated Access" solutions. This includes initial project briefing and presentation, to help your institution understand what is required in become a member of the UK federation and to benefit from the wealth of online resources. Our experience has shown that planning and understanding what is required from the client is essential to obtaining the best of what federated access has to offer. We can offer various solutions such as hosted Identity Providers, hosted Service Providers (so you can make your resources available to others through federated access). You can also choose to keep your IdP and SPs hosted in house and we can setup and provide a complete support package. Ed and his team at Overt Software have worked on high profile JISC projects ranging back from 2002, such as FEAIMS Project, KC-ROLO Project, CUCKOO project, PAMS Project, RAPTOR project and also the IdM Toolkit project which focused on identity management. All these projects are heavily linked with federated access. | Email Overt Software Solutions Email Technical Support All enquiries 01905 755546 |
| Primary Technology Ltd. delivers high quality Hosted Web services exclusively for Schools. We focus mainly on delivering Shibboleth <-> LAMP(Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) integration for small SP’s and new start-ups with an interest in open source and education. | Email08456 801274 |
| Salford Software offers various services to institutions wishing to participate in the UK Access Management Federation. Salford Software has the technical expertise required to deploy the Shibboleth IdP software and additional services, such as the institutional audit and report if required. Salford Software has negotiated an agreement with the Federation, which enables those organisations wishing to outsource the whole project to nominate Salford Software to undertake the entire administration of the registration process and deployment of IdP. | Jason Ewbank0161 906 2233 |
| Semantico is an award-winning company delivering e-publishing solutions for publishers. Our mission is to be the partner of choice in helping our clients realise the full potential of internet technologies for delivering digital information services. Our access management product, SAMS is designed to enable publishers to control and manage access subscriptions based resources online. We support multiple methods of authentication including IP recognition, Referer, Athens and Shibboleth. Our SAMS Gatekeeper product allows publishers to take advantage of the benefits of the SAMS system for legacy products and offers a simple route to Shibboleth inoperability or COUNTER compliance. | Gareth Bish00 44 (0) 1273 358 234 |
| Synetrix specialises in managed service Identity and Access Management solutions for the education and the public sectors. Synetrix offers enterprise solutions, utilising both open source and Microsoft technologies, to deliver turnkey Identity solutions and true Single Sign-On from the desktop through to federated web resources. Synetrix is a Microsoft Gold partner and provides IDP and SP services to over 350,000 education users in the UK. Synetrix currently operates a Shibboleth 2.0 IDP for all learners in the East Midlands. | Jay Neale01782 338 206 |
JISC have provided a briefing paper and detailed information on Third Party Federated Access Management Solutions Providers.