69 pence per user a month to £2.50 per user professional services revenue for a month, depending on the customer’s implementing an on-premises solution.” redundancy and availability requirements. Windows Azure and System Center There is a minimum commitment of £100 a 2012 deliver high degree of month.” automation. The automated, provisioning of Active Directory The solution is currently in its public open Federation Services demonstrates the beta stage before final release and the first level of automation that’s possible with customers are already going live. Scarfe Microsoft System Center 2012 and its says: “Dot Net Solutions helps customers Service Manager and Orchestrator fully embrace cloud services such as features. Microsoft Office 365 by removing one of ADFS Online is easily customised for the major issues for users—managing private environments. ADFS Online is multiple passwords.” based on standard Windows Server 2012 and Active Directory Federation Benefits Services. Scarfe says: “This means it’s ADFS Online has the potential to unlock quick and simple for us to customise hundreds of opportunities for Microsoft platforms to suit client needs. However Office 365 cloud deployments. It lowers the complex the configuration, we will still cost barrier for single sign-on to Active support it and deliver it back to the Directory Federation Services so SMEs can customer as a service.” enjoy the same service as larger organisations with on-premises infrastructure. By using Microsoft data centres to deliver ADFS Online worldwide, customers gain security and protection through a financially backed service-level agreement. Customers get up and running with ADFS Online in less than one hour. Scarfe says: “Less than one hour to deploy ADFS Online compares to between five and 20 days with a traditional on-premises implementation of Microsoft Office 365.” Cloud services model helps Dot Net Solutions earn annuity revenue. The operational expenditure financial model offered by ADFS Online is proving popular with Microsoft customers because there are no capital costs involved. Scarfe says: “For us, it means recurring annuity revenue instead of
69 pence per user a month to £2.50 per user a month, depending on the customer’s redundancy and availability requirements. There is a minimum commitment of £100 a month.” The solution is currently in its public open beta stage before final release and the first customers are already going live. Scarfe says: “Dot Net Solutions helps customers fully embrace cloud services such as Microsoft Office 365 by removing one of the major issues for users—managing multiple passwords.” Benefits ADFS Online has the potential to unlock hundreds of opportunities for Microsoft Office 365 cloud deployments. It lowers the cost barrier for single sign-on to Active Directory Federation Services so SMEs can enjoy the same service as larger organisations with on-premises infrastructure. By using Microsoft data centres to deliver ADFS Online worldwide, customers gain security and protection through a financially backed service-level agreement. Customers get up and running with ADFS Online in less than one hour. Scarfe says: “Less than one hour to deploy ADFS Online compares to between five and 20 days with a traditional on-premises implementation of Microsoft Office 365.” Cloud services model helps Dot Net Solutions earn annuity revenue. The operational expenditure financial model offered by ADFS Online is proving popular with Microsoft customers because there are no capital costs involved. Scarfe says: “For us, it means recurring annuity revenue instead of professional services revenue for implementing an on-premises solution.” Windows Azure and System Center 2012 deliver high degree of automation. The automated, provisioning of Active Directory Federation Services demonstrates the level of automation that’s possible with Microsoft System Center 2012 and its Service Manager and Orchestrator features. ADFS Online is easily customised for private environments. ADFS Online is based on standard Windows Server 2012 and Active Directory Federation Services. Scarfe says: “This means it’s quick and simple for us to customise platforms to suit client needs. However complex the configuration, we will still support it and deliver it back to the customer as a service.”