Benefits provided by WAM

Community: 

• Single Sign On (SSO) - login once and become authenticated with all participating applications.
• increased security - you will provide your credentials on the centrally-managed login page instead of entering it into each individually managed applications. The application developers will not see your password.

Developers: 

• no need to design your own login page - the authentication user interface is provided and maintained centrally by CCS with the latest UofG styling.
• obtain easy and consistent access to the user's personal attributes via a centrally-provided framework (e.g., for ColdFusion)
• join your applications into application suites and become part of a portal-like community where barriers between the applications start to disappear.

Administrators: 

• Leverage centrally managed access to web resources
• Easily set up centrally protected resources