Increasing SaaS adoption, IT systems moving to enterprise cloud solutions with hybrid landscape as an extension to their On-Premises Applications.\u00a0 User Experience plays a vital role and offering robust user authentication\/authorization with seamless Single Sign on experience become a key business driver for enterprises implementing SaaS\/PaaS solutions.<\/p>\n
Enterprise expectations on User experience<\/strong><\/p>\n Customers are looking for a faster and seamless solutions for User onboarding. Enhanced Performance and increased productivity by facilitating quicker access to cloud application for enterprise users.<\/p>\n Enhanced security, unified user authentication and Single Sign-on leveraging the existing Active directory services of enterprise become the customer\u2019s choice to enable their enterprise users to access the cloud applications seamlessly.<\/p>\n What is Single Sign-On<\/strong><\/p>\n Single Sign-On (SSO) enables users to login into one cloud service and access other cloud applications without entering the credentials again, providing users a seamless navigation experience while accessing multiple cloud applications.<\/p>\n Why SSO is desirable in Enterprise Cloud<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Seamless federated SSO capabilities for SaaS\/PaaS which enables users to access PaaS based extensions through SaaS applications without the need to sign in multiple times.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Facilitate Enterprise to provide fast, secure access to applications for Employees and Business partners<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Hassle free Cloud application navigation experience for users with reduced failed login attempts and password resets.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Centralized management of authentication and authorization leveraging dedicated Identity provider for User Authentication and Service provider for User Authorization for application access<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Centralized framework for security and compliance<\/p>\n How Oracle IDCS becomes a preferred Identity management solution for Enterprise needs<\/strong><\/p>\n Oracle Identity Cloud Service provides a comprehensive integrated solution that offers Identity management, Single Sign-on (SSO) and identity governance for the applications hosted in On-premises and Cloud.<\/p>\n Oracle IDCS also enables seamless integration with existing identity management systems and directories to facilitate enterprise users to get the access for the cloud applications.<\/p>\n Oracle IDCS unique offerings for seamless Single sign on enablement for SaaS\/PaaS<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 User life cycle management using standard SCIM interface<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Federate user authentication using On-Premises identity providers like Oracle Access Manager or various 3rd Party SAML Identity provider like Azure AD, OKTA, One Login, Ping Federate etc.,<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Automated user provisioning from Cloud or On-Premises Identity Providers.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Support SAML based authentication for Identity federation and enabling single sign-on<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Interactive UI which requires less configurations to enable SSO for SaaS and PaaS Cloud Applications<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Efficient way of managing profile and user account passwords and facilitate self-service based user registrations<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Leveraged as Identity provider for User Authentication and Service provider for user authorization and role-based access management<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Pay-as-you-go offering \u2013 Customers pay only for what they use and helps enterprise in cost reduction.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Enhanced security offerings like multi-factor authentication (MFA) for enterprise cloud applications to have multi-layer security.<\/p>\n Identity federation and Single Sign on enablement in IDCS – Implementation steps<\/strong><\/p>\n Identity Federation<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Register external Identity Provider in IDCS Single Sign-on Enablement<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Register SaaS\/PaaS service as SAML Application Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n Identity federation and Single Sign on is attaining momentum as Enterprise needs quicker onboarding of users and hassle-free user experience while accessing SaaS\/PaaS Cloud Applications. 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\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Configure IDCS as Service Provider in external IDP
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Synchronize user identities from external Identity Providers
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 IDP Policies to enforce default Identity Provider Authentication
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Test the federation trust between Identity provider and Service Provider<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Configure Assertion Consumer endpoints
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 Configure SSO Endpoints and Access signing certificate
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 SSO Attributes mapping for respective SaaS\/PaaS Services
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 SAML Application Activation and test SSO endpoint access<\/p>\n