Many organizations source cloud services from different vendors which introduces various challenges to business including, but not limited to, billing, payments, access management etc…

I am keen on understanding how cloud service brokerage can be used for single sign on, which is one among the challenges in using a cloud service. If you take the Google Apps, they all use Google Accounts for accessing the service. However, not all service providers are integrated to Google Accounts. Some service providers would give an option for integrating with your Active Directory. How many of you would want to integrate the AD with a public cloud?

An interesting reading from Gartner at Forbes on collaborating the cloud services from various cloud service providers using a Cloud Service brokerage company. It is an interesting concept / service.