Ellucian Identity Services?

[Kevin Foote]

> On Apr 15, 2015, at 6:13 PM, IAM David Bantz <dabantz at alaska.edu> wrote:
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> Has anyone on this list evaluated Ellucian Identity Services, a "comprehensive" solution supposed to support and integrate CAS, Shibboleth, OpenID, WS-Federation "and many others?"  Any insights appreciated.

You did say “Any” .. so I’ll take you up on that, here is my $.02 fwiw..

I sat through their mini webinar a few weeks back on what they had planed in terms of a replacement of their BEIS stack. I viewed the “comprehensive” offerings that ‘Ellucian Identity Services’ has planned as them trying to play catch up for the past 6 to 8 years in terms of getting their ID Services component where it needs to be. I did not see anything earth shattering in terms of functionality. I believe you would also loose the ability to ingest your federation metadata by moving to only this product as your SAML engine - (not sure exactly on that one though).

In short, I did not see anything that could not be done with an IdPv3 service - (seems possible with an IdP-v2 instance as well just a bit more involved :)

… IMHO of course :)


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 kevin.foote