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A yuuvis® Momentum user has to be authenticated in order to be authorized to access to whatever ressources resources or functions his role entitles him too. To achieve this, yuuvis® Momentum connects to an identity provider, which may offer Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality. An existing corporate systems environment usually already uses some sort of identity provider. An identity provider is a software managing user accounts and authentication, the classical classic example being Microsoft® Active Directory® (AD) or OpenLDAP implementations. An identity provider is a software managing user accounts and authentication. Using the yuuvis® API authentication service requires an identity provider to handle authentication by providing the endpoints used in the OAuth 2.0 authorization workflows.
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