15 August, 2007 - 10:52am

New research from Gartner predicts that the Software-as-a-Service market will increase 20% this year over last to $5.1 billion and that by 2011 it will more than double to $11.5 billion. The drivers they list for this growth over traditional software include, "Ease of use, rapid deployment, limited upfront investment in capital and staffing, plus a reduction in software management responsibility.” With multiple SaaS application usage however comes traditional enterprise IdM needs, such as securing user access, managing users, and of course web single sign-on. Our on-demand identity management solution, Sxip Access, addresses these issues and more for the majority of popular SaaS applications including Salesforce and Google Apps.