End user or federated SSO is a standard that allows products to meet customer compliance requirements, reduce the total cost of ownership, and improve end user experience. The foundation for this support in the collaboration products has been introduced in the 10.0 and 10.5 releases. This allows administrators to configure the infrastructure in preparation for end user clients such as Cisco Unity Connection and Cisco Jabber, which is rolling out support for users with release 10.5 in the second half of 2014.

Once an Administrator enables this feature for users it will allow users in a Cisco collaboration application to log in to supported applications with their corporate username and password. If the Cisco application is accessed by way of a browser the user can use the same corporate username and password to log in. If the user has already logged in to another corporate application in that same browser they should be able to access the application without having to provide a username and password. All of these features are available within the customer network or accessible by way of a VPN.

The supported products are:

The supported end user clients are: