Recognising its unique commitment to the education community, and to UK Higher and Further Education in particular, Eduserv provides each of the components within the OpenAthens framework to an institution for a single price.
UK higher and further education institutions can choose between OpenAthens MD and OpenAthens LA for identity and entitlement management as well as OpenAthens SP to provide access management for their applications.
This means that you can provide users with single sign-on to both internal applications such as a virtual learning environment (VLE) and external resources such as journals and e-books subscribed to by their libraries. By using OpenAthens SP for controlling access to your internal applications, you can also enable controlled interaction and collaboration with other institutions, whether local or international, who have adopted either Athens or SAML standards.
Finally, as the importance of identity management grows on the web at large, you can be confident that the OpenAthens modular platform architecture will be able to accomodate new and emerging identity management protocols such as OpenID and Information Cards.
Take a look at the pricing of this complete package for UK Higher and Further Education and contact us if you'd like to discuss your needs.