Show, Don’t Just Tell! Videos Can Help Awesome Mortgage Origination
In what ways do you present mortgage options to a prospective customer? By meeting in person and explaining the details with supporting documents? That seems convincing, but that is something you usually do in the last phase. It is also the least scalable option. What channels can you use to generate public interest, build repute as a thought leader, and gather leads? To name a few, those channels are your websites, blogs, social media, email campaigns, and public events. Studies show that most of such communication relies heavily on textual content. Two very obvious, but often unnoticed facts: People trust you more if you have a face and not just a voice. People do business with you more readily when they are familiar with you. But how does that affect your loan origination processes? How can you take advantage of these simple facts to boost your business? They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Logically, a video should be worth a hundred thousand, with moving pictures and sounds, and the intimacy of human talk. High bandwidth internet and ubiquitous screen-cast applications make it very easy to create, edit, and upload videos these days. Have you considered putting up your message as a series of short videos? Screen casting (aka video screen capture) is recording your computer screen as video, usually with voiceover recorded by using a microphone. That is an excellent way to demonstrate your mortgage origination software and explain processes. Videos created can also be used for awesome presentations. Putting them online in front of the right people lets you explain things just like you would in person. Broadcast your message over a wide range of video-hosting platforms and social media in addition to your official websites and blogs. Many screen-cast software are available for free and are very easy to learn and use. Many are even available as mobile apps. Open Broadcaster Software, commonly known as OBS, is free and available for Windows, OSX (Mac), and Linux platforms. Some other popular free screen-casting software are AviScreen, Screenr, CamStudio, Copernicus, JingProject, Screencast-O-Matic, and Wink. For those who are particular about professional quality and full control, there is paid software (this does not mean that free versions are inferior in quality or features). Examples of commercial software for screen-cast include Camtasia, Adobe Captivate, ScreenFlow, AllCapture, HyperCam, iShowU, ScreenMimic, and ScreenRecord. These tools are incredibly simple and fascinating. Download and install a free version and start creating your videos. On the go, you will learn great ways of presenting your mortgage products and loan servicing software. They are designed to improve your image as an expert. It’s time to let people trust you like they want to trust you.
WSO2 Integration with AEM – Part 1
WSO2 Identity Server (IS) is a good choice to Integrate WSO2 Identity Server with AEM for Single Sign On, as WSO2IS is open source and supports SAML 2.0, OpenID, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, SCIM, XACML, and Passive Federation. The server also has in-built LDAP, in which we can set up users and their roles. In this part, we address WSO2IS Installation & Configuration. In the next part (Part 2), we will look at AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) Side Configuration. Steps for WSO2 Identity Server Installation & Configuration: Download the server from http://wso2.com/products/identity-server/ and install. Login to WSO2IS Login using the default credentials (username:admin and password:admin). Go to Main > Users and Roles > Add. Create a new user. This user will be used to login to the website and become authenticated by WSO2IS. Create a new Service Provider in order to let AEM use WSO2IS as an IDP. Go to Identity > Service Providers > Add. We need to specify a Service Provider name, and then configure the SAML Web SSO. For that, we must access Inbound Authentication Configuration > SAML2 Web SSO Configuration, and click Configure. Next, we need to provide the configuration for SAML SSO like in the image below: Configuration for SAML SSO – Issuer: aem This is the entity ID for SAML2 service provider. This value should be the same as the SAML. IssuerID value will be specified inside the travelocity.com/WEB-INF/classes/travelocity.properties file. This is the Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL of the service provider. The identity provider redirects the SAML2 response to this ACS URL and this value should be the same as the SAML. The ConsumerUrl value will be mentioned inside the travelocity.com/WEB-INF/classes/travelocity.properties file. NameID format: urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:EmailAddress The service provider and identity provider usually reciprocate with each other regarding a specific subject. That subject should be detected through a Name-Identifier (NameID), which should be in a format that simplifies identification by the other party. There are some formats that are defined by SAML2 specification. Enter the format’s default value here (i.e., urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:NameID-format:EmailAddress). “Use fully qualified username in the NameID” option should be checked. “Enable Response Signing” option should be checked. Set this as true by selecting the checkbox. This is used to sign the SAML2 Responses returned post authentication. “Enable Assertion Signing” option should be checked. “Enable Single Logout” option should be checked. Set this as true by selecting the checkbox. Do this to sanguinely terminate all sessions once the user signs out from one server. “Enable Attribute Profile” option should be checked. “Include Attributes in the Response Always” option should be checked. Configure outbound authentication type as Default. This specifies that the identity provider authenticates the users by validating with the identity provider’s user store. Save all the configurations. Read the second part of the blog on AEM Side Configuration