perMIT benefits

The perMIT system will be a contribution to the open source community, a seminal effort towards the evolution of Identity Services for MIT and the global effort towards more mature identity management capabilities. This will support better integration of authorization management into a wide range of applications as the community helps to develop integration solutions around perMIT and addresses the IS&T strategic goal of Improving the IT User Experience. Additionally, the perMIT project will help to address the IS&T strategic goal of Provide high quality, ubiquitous IT services by addressing the component of Creating a "service oriented architecture" and infrastructure platform that software developers across MIT can easily use to develop and maintain flexible IT applications at lower cost