25.9.2009

Saima improves usability of its application service with Emillion's Distal authentication

SAIMA soft & people Oy (now part of Norppa Group), the strategic partner of personnel administration, and Emillion, a forerunner in identity and access management solutions, have agreed on deploying Emillion's Distal authentication solution in SAIMA application services.

"As the size of our customers and hence the amount of users has grown, a more effective user management has become an important part of our SaaS service. Distal enables our customers to manage access to our applications with their centralized user management and single sign-on", says Toni Säämänen, product development manager at SAIMA. "We chose Distal because the rollout process is so easy. Our customers does not need any special expertise to start using it, and the integration with our application was done in one day", Säämänen continues.

Distal authentication is based on the utilization of the user's intranet user profile. Distal fetches selected user identity information from the intranet and passes it to SAIMA's service. This automates keeping the user information and access rights up-to-date. Easier sign-on and simplified user management drives usage, brings cost savings and improves security to both SAIMA and SAIMA's customers.

"SAIMA wanted to make it easier to use their applications, especially for their bigger customers, and this is exactly the need Distal was designed to solve. The agreement with SAIMA strengthens our vision, that there is a need for Distal, both by SaaS vendors and especially by their larger customers", says Kjell Backlund, CEO at Emillion.

More information:

Toni Säämänen, product development manager, SAIMA soft & people Oy, +358 40 5678 144

Kjell Backlund, CEO, Emillion Oy, +358 400 848 747

SAIMA soft & people Oy specialises in personnel services and personnel administration tools as well as combining them in an innovative way. The SAIMA HR service consists of personnel renting and recruiting services, as well as software products for recruiting, skill management and managment of extra work and work hours. SAIMA HR service enables the customer to outsource recruting and resourcing either parttly or entrirely depending on its situation. The service is based on a web based recruiting and skill management tool, which is used by both the customer and SAIMA.
SAIMA and Sentteri Henkilöstö Oy merged 22.9.2009 to become Norppa Group, which offers all personnel management services under one roof for the first time.
www.saima.fi