Ping Identity Delivers NetWeaver Integration Kit and Receives SAP Certification

Business Wire, June 19, 2007

Federated Single Sign-on to NetWeaver Improves Security, Lowers Costs and Improves User Experience

DENVER -- Ping Identity Corporation today announced the PingFederate Integration Kit for SAP NetWeaver is now available for download from its Web site, www.pingidentity.com. In addition, the company announced PingFederate has been formally certified by SAP for use with NetWeaver. This certification gives SAP customers assurance that PingFederate and the NetWeaver Integration Kit have been properly designed, implemented and tested for use with SAP application environments.

Using PingFederate and the NetWeaver Integration Kit, SAP customers can now give their business partners standards-based single sign-on into their SAP application environments. PingFederate provides support for all the major identity federation standard protocols including SAML 1.0, SAML 1.1, SAML 2 and WS-Federation. Ping Identity engineers worked with the SAP Integration and Certification Center to determine that PingFederate properly integrates with SAP NetWeaver platform for successful authentication into J2EE Web applications.

"SAP is excited to see Ping Identity extend its market-leading federated identity management solution to support SAP environments," said Lisa Reeves, Senior Vice President, SAP Ventures. "We strongly believe them to be on the forefront of identity management and are pleased to be investors in the company."

"SAP users can now deploy federated identity management to secure their external business partner connections," said Andre Durand, CEO, Ping Identity. "PingFederate improves security and reduces administrative costs while providing functionality that end users absolutely love."

About PingFederate

Award-winning PingFederate is a standalone identity federation server with multi-protocol capabilities for SAML 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and WS-Federation single sign-on. PingFederate can be downloaded directly from Ping Identity at www.pingidentity.com. PingFederate is certified Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 interoperable and GSA E-Authentication compliant.

About Ping Identity Corporation

Ping Identity is uniquely dedicated to delivering Internet Identity Management software and services that are transforming how organizations work with employees, customers and business partners. Our open and flexible approach offers best-of-breed software complemented with best-in-class service that exceeds the ever-expanding needs of large enterprises, service providers and government agencies worldwide. For more information, please visit www.pingidentity.com, dial toll-free 877.898.2905 or 1 303.468.2882, or email sales@pingidentity.com.

Ping Identity and PingFederate are registered trademarks of Ping Identity Corporation. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.