implement Shibboleth

[Peter Schober]

* Wei Xuan <Wei.Xuan at umanitoba.ca> [2016-01-25 19:13]:
> Our university plans to implement Shibboleth as the single sign-on
> solution. We have an IT consultant from a consulting firm to do the
> project. He would like to know if there is a list of database
> vendors that support Shibboleth and if one vendor can be picked up
> as a test vendor.

Given that your signature states this:

> Head, Libraries Systems

I guess you meant "database vendors" to refer to "e-resource
providers" or academic publishers, i.e., (often commercial)
subscription-based services for e-journal and (citation, etc.)
database access?

If so you could poke around in MET https://met.refeds.org/ to see what
services have registered with at least one known (to MET) academic
federation on the planet, e.g. Elsevier, SpringerLink, tandf, Emerald,
etc.pp.

If you're looking for a single list maybe take a look at the 1041 "Service Providers" (selected "Entity Type" on top) currently available in eduGAIN:
https://technical.edugain.org/entities
Quite a few of those will be what library folks might consider
database vendors.

HTH,
-peter