Integration with Web Portals

P-Synch® can be embedded into the user interface of a number of portal products:

The user interface is totally customizable and can be:
- Stripped down, making it suitable for embedding in a portal that retrieves blocks of HTML from another application and inserts them into a frame or table cell
- Decorated to match the portal page, including logos and navigation, so that it appears just like the Intranet portal, despite being one of several peer servers that share a user interface
An API (application programming interface) is exposed by P-Synch, supporting features such as user authentication, random password generation, password policy enforcement and password resets. Portals that implement a single user interface layer can implement their own UI and connect to the P-Synch API (application programming interface) to implement "back end" functions.
The API (application programming interface) is available in SOAP, Win32 and Unix shared object bindings.
An API (application programming interface) is exposed by P-Synch, supporting features such as creating or deleting users on target systems, modifying user membership in security groups on target systems and modifying user attributes.
The API (application programming interface) is accessed using SOAP and includes a WSDL specification.
The P-Synch API (application programming interface) is particularly useful for extending meta directories to manage new types of target systems and for enabling custom-written and third-party workflow engines to complete a user provisioning operation with actual updates to target systems, rather than with instructions to a human security administrator.
Exit programs throughout P-Synch can update data in a portal. For example, P-Synch registration of Q-A (Question-and-Answer) profile data can be updated in an LDAP directory, so that the portal's native self-service password reset process can use the same data (or a subset of it) as P-Synch.
P-Synch can be set up to "trust" portal authentication of users, rather than asking users to re-authenticate.
New passwords, reset or synchronized by P-Synch, can be automatically updated in a portal's internal database or directory, in the event that the portal will use them to provide single sign-on to other applications.