The new software is the first standalone product of its type on the market. Both Oblix and rival Netegrity Inc [NETE] have had similar features built into their core products for several months.
ShareID was based on work Oblix carried out for aircraft maker Boeing [BA] and Southwest Airlines [LUV]. The software was designed to give Southwest engineers single sign-on access to Boeing’s portal.
ShareID supplements CoreID, Oblix’s core SSO product. The strategy is to at first sell the software to partners of CoreID customers, before expanding into new customer bases. The company will sell a spoke pack of ShareID licenses with new CoreID sales.
At first, the system uses the security assertions markup language (SAML), to pass user access privileges between partners. User log on to their local SSO software, and ShareID will pass on their credentials when they go to log into a partner portal.
But Oblix will remain neutral when it comes to SAML-like standards. The company will also support WS-Federation (backed by IBM [IBM] and Microsoft [MSFT]) and Liberty (backed by Sun), which deal with the same problem as SAML.
Oblix said the ShareID software starts at $60,000 for a 500-user license, three weeks of professional services and one year of support. This is significantly cheaper than CoreID licenses, which occasionally run into the millions of dollars.
This article was based on material originally published by ComputerWire.
