Identity management comprises setting up trust and providing credentials for business users.
When setting up your identity management architecture, the following uses cases are possible:
- Using the default identity provider SAP ID service, an instance of Identity Authentication service. It is used to set up trust for business users and supports identity federation, which enables user access across various systems by exchanging identity information based on a trust relationship. See Identity Federation.
- Establishing trust to a custom identity authentication service tenant. See Setup of a Custom Identity Service.
- Using a corporate identity provider in a hybrid landscape. In this case, we recommend using the Identity Authentication service as a proxy for the corporate identity provider. See Corporate Identity Providers. Note that there is no direct trust relationship between the authenticating identity provider and the service provider that the business user is trying to access.
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