Easing Password Hell – Key To Living Online Life Safely
As we all use more and more different services and applications in our personal and work lives, password management becomes ever more of an issue. It’s staggering the number of times I’ve had to gently make people aware of the fact that using one simple password for every single service
OneLogin Launches Cross-Application Search
The announcement by Salesforce a few weeks ago that it was moving into the enterprise Single Sign on (SSO) space was both an excellent validation that sso across cloud and on-premise applications is needed, but also a rude awakening to the existing independent SSO vendors like OneLogin and Okta. While
VMware Horizon App Manager – A Quick Analysis
Whether you want to call it consumerization of enterprises or democratization of IT, we know that it is happening already and no FUD can stop them anymore. Instead of fighting this process, today’s smart enterprises are embracing them by empowering their users to securely use SaaS and other consumer applications. VMware realized this trend and [...]
OneLogin – Single Sign On for the Enterprise
After my recent post about LastPass, Thomas Pedersen, a Zendesk alumnus and founder of SaaS password management tool OneLogin flicked me an email with an invitation to try out their product. OneLogin works via a browser extension which effectively pastes the credentials into your application and logs you in. OneLogin supports all major browsers – [...]
WebFinger – Paradigm Changing?
I wrote a post recently about what billFLO is doing for small, Mom and Pop owner of Do it Best stores. This, along with some pretty exciting discussions I’d had both as part of The Small Business Web and privately with some other people, got me thinking about the reality on the ground for SMBs. [...]
Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps
I was sitting down for a pleasant morning coffee with the boys from WaveAdept, a New Zealand based company that, among other things, is a reseller for Google apps. Our discussion got on to the barriers to adoption for Google apps and specifically what can be done to increase uptake among small businesses. It’s an [...]
billFLO Bringing Services to the Little Guys
I’ve written before about billFLO, a service that enables users to send and receive machine readable invoices straight into their accounting system. They’re announcing this morning a deal which is a great case study to show the value that connected business services can bring to SMBs. It’s a subject I’ve passionately been discussing with a [...]
LTech – Holding Hands in the Move to SaaS
LTech is a company that has a long partnership with Google – originally they were a systems integrator helping organizations deploy Google search appliances. They now focus more on easing the deployment of Google apps into enterprise customers – they’ve been a Google Enterprise Partners since the program was launched. There 20 staff have helped [...]
SyferLock Almost Solves The Password Security Problem
Few months back I was worrying about the readiness of SaaS vendors to protect users from password related attacks, either through phishing or key logging or any of the many different ways in which users’ passwords can be snatched. When thinking about how we use SaaS, I am worried about the risks associated with the [...]
