Chapter 1. Solutions Overview
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# Chapter 1. Solutions Overview

ForgeRock's Open Identity Gateway (OpenIG) provides the answer to three important challenges.

## 1.1. Extend SSO To Any Application

In today's enterprise, more than 30% of web applications are incompatible with web access management (WAM) software. That is, unlike OpenAM with OpenIG, most web access management products lack the agent to protect the web applications, or the application is a legacy solution that does not follow standard protocols for single sign-on. This limits the return on the enterprise WAM investment and constrains what types of web applications can be protected.

ForgeRock's Open Identity Gateway addresses this problem by extending access management to encompass all web applications. With OpenIG, OpenAM deployments can now be extended to be inclusive of those applications that do not integrate with policy agents alone. In addition, ForgeRock Open Identity Gateway interoperates, out-of-the-box, with all management solutions. Most importantly, your organization can on-board any web application without ever modifying or touching the target application again, significantly reducing the development and quality assurance required to protect web applications.

## 1.2. Federate Enabling Applications

The expertise and cost required to add SAML2 support to web applications is a problem for many businesses. Those businesses not moving to a standard for exposing their applications to their customers see increased cost and maintenance due to the complexity of one-off proprietary integrations. They may also see a loss of business to those customers requiring a Federation standard for authentication. Sometimes, deploying a full access mangaement solution just to federate a few applications is is too complex and costly, and building out their own solution by modifying their applications is just not possible.

[D]

OpenIG Federation Gateway allows businesses to add SAML2 support to their applications with little to no knowledge of the standard. In addition, there is no need to modify the application or install any plugin or agent on the application container.

## 1.3. Implement Standards Based Policy Enforcement

In order to provide SSO, OpenAM policy enforcement points, the policy agents, have traditionally functioned as plugins for each application. The policy agents however use OpenAM specific APIs and protocols. In contrast, you can roll out OpenIG as an independent policy enforcement point that is built on the SAML2 standard.

[D]

OpenIG Federation Gateway can replace policy agents with a standards based SAML2 compliant enforcement point.

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