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Heroku vs Shibboleth

A side-by-side look at Heroku and Shibboleth. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Heroku

Heroku

Online Services

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that simplifies application deployment, management, and scaling. Acquired by Salesforce, Heroku allows developers to focus on writing code by providing an easy-to-use platform for building, deploying, and scaling applications without the need for complex infrastructure management.

paascloud-computingapplication-deployment
Shibboleth

Shibboleth

Security & Privacy

Shibboleth is an open source single sign-on system that enables secure access to resources across organizational boundaries. It allows users to sign in once with their institutional credentials to gain access to multiple resources.

single-signonfederated-identityaccess-control

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