Recommended consultants ?

[Gary Chapman]

At NYU we are possibly looking to identify one or more consultancies that
would be
able to assist application owners in SSO integration work (with our
Shibboleth IdP).

Our model here is to expect SP proprietors to handle their end, but
obviously not all
developers / companies are experienced with SAML-based SSO integrations...
and we
would like to be in the position of being able to recommend a source of
help.

Suggestions? Thoughts?

Thanks - Gary Chapman, NYU/Identity & Database Services

[Cantor, Scott]

Post by Gary Chapman
Our model here is to expect SP proprietors to handle their end, but
obviously not all
developers / companies are experienced with SAML-based SSO
integrations... and we
would like to be in the position of being able to recommend a source of
help.
Suggestions? Thoughts?

My experience has been strongly negative with vendors that need that kind
of help. It leads to very unreliable systems later on because they don't
have the staff to support the solution. We had one case that actually did
it in house then punted it out to a contractor who also had no skills and
they ended up paying me for consulting time to fix a system OSU needed to
get working again.

I generally push a non-SSO option if I strongly believe the vendor can't
be trusted to do it.

-- Scott