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An identity provider is a system that manages identity information for users and serves as the authentication service for Vantage. By default, Vantage uses a built-in Identity Provider that authenticates users by their username and password. You can configure Vantage to use an External Identity Provider. In this case, Vantage will reach out to that provider in order to confirm the user’s identity before authenticating them in Vantage. If there are already users in the tenant, they will be able to authenticate via an External Identity Provider with the e-mail that was used to log in previously.
Note: The same External Identity Provider can be configured for multiple tenants.

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Supported Protocols

ABBYY Vantage supports using Active Directory and Azure Active Directory as External Identity Providers (OAuth 2.0 and SAML 2.0 protocols are supported). This section describes the correct procedure for setting up an ABBYY Vantage tenant, as well as how to set up the Active Directory or the Azure Active Directory service to be used as an External Identity Provider via the OAuth 2.0 or the SAML 2.0 protocol.

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Configuration Steps

To configure Vantage to use an External Identity Provider, you will need to do the following:
  1. Prepare the External Identity Provider depending on the protocol you use (Configuring an OAuth 2.0 External Identity Provider or Configuring a SAML 2.0 External Identity Provider).
  2. Connect the External Identity Provider to the Vantage tenant (Setting up an External Identity Provider for a tenant).
Note: This setup can only be carried out by a user with the Tenant Administrator role.
After the setup is complete, the user will be able to authenticate in Vantage using the External Identity Provider (Authentication using an External Identity Provider).