Today VMware announced that Horizon App Manager 1.5 will be available for on-premises use.
Horizon App Manager is VMware’s single sign on (SSO) portal for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications that was released in May 2011 hosted by VMware and sold on a per-user subscription.
Horizon App Manager enables organizations to centrally manage the provisioning, access and usage of public and private SaaS application, supports the main SaaS providers like Box.net, Google, Salesforce and WebEx, allows federated login on apps that supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) or Open Authentication (OAuth2) and provides split-key identity storage for legacy web applications.
Later in this quarter, Horizon App Manager 1.5, will be available as a virtual appliance that companies can host in their data centers maximising the control over this authentication provider and service providers can host for their costumer or for their direct use.