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IP Commerce Platform-as-a-Service for Payments

In an industry yearning for innovation to address the combined challenges of commoditization and regulation, there are substantial challenges to overcome…Offering an “API” does not enable innovation for your customers; rather it is addressed by deploying a holistic solution (including a Platform and APIs coupled with appropriate process) to meet the needs of all participants - leveraging people, product, and processes to enable partnerships between all industry participants (including the software company that owns the customer point of acceptance) to drive meaningful, incremental revenue for the entire value chain.

Federated Identity APIs: Real-Time Collaboration Through Single-Sign-On

Federated identity enables users of one domain to securely access data or systems of another domain seamlessly, and without the need for redundant user administration.  Using IP Commerce’s SSO APIs for Federated Identity, software companies and service providers use managed Federated Identity services, in the cloud, to partner and provide integrated solutions that customers value.  These APIs provide Single Sign-On (SSO) for applications and services across multiple parties and leverage the governance power of IP Commerce Platform Commerce Business Rules through claims management, thereby delivering comprehensive federation capabilities through a single, low-cost integration.

Federated Identity: Universal Authentication for E-commerce Transactions

Protecting the integrity & security of commerce transactions, in a fashion seamless to the consumer, requires deployment of Federated Identity capabilities in the transaction processing ecosystem workflow. This whitepaper, initially published in response to a Merchant Risk Council call for papers, describes such a deployment for universal authentication of e-commerce transactions. The technology to enable this for not only e-commerce, but all acceptance channels in a methodology agnostic fashion, is built into the IP Commerce platform and being consumed by software companies daily.