SANTA CLARA, USA: Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced Sun OpenSSO Enterprise software, the first open, high-performance and unified solution for access management, federation and secure Web services capabilities to address the core single sign-on (SSO) problems that organizations face today.

OpenSSO Enterprise was built in collaboration with OpenSSO, the world's largest open source, identity management project.

OpenSSO Enterprise is the only integrated open source, access and federation management offering on the market today. Sun allows customers to deploy commercial or open source versions of OpenSSO Enterprise, known by OpenSSO community members as Express builds, and provides full support and indemnification.

As a result, customers benefit from an active open source community, support and service from Sun, direct access to Sun engineering and expertise, direct access to OpenSSO source code, and easy access to the latest product innovations.

"Sun's identity management portfolio includes the most open, complete and secure end-to-end solution that helps customers protect their internal and external systems and scale their business in a way that hasn't been done before," said Mark Herring, vice president of marketing, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems.

"Sun's updated identity portfolio, including the new OpenSSO Enterprise, is designed to solve basic and complex SSO and authorization issues as well as streamline the management of end users and resources, so organizations can focus on growth," he added.

OpenSSO Enterprise, formerly known as Sun Java System Access Manager and Sun Java System Federation Manager, offers a simplified and more intuitive end-user experience.