Single Sign On Announcement
Almaden is pleased to announce that we have integrated single sign on (SSO) capability into our products. The Collective IQ® suite comprising Digital Employee Experience Management (DEX) and IT Asset Management (ITAM) solutions has been improved to provide secure login utilizing a single ID and encrypted password.
About Single Sign On
The use of SSO will provide enhanced protection in addition to ease of use. Furthermore, it is fully integrated with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) in order to maximize enterprise-wide protections. If needed, you can speak with Customer Support about potential integration with other authentication and identity services.
Single Sign On Technology
Almaden’s SSO technology is based on Keycloak identity and access management software. Information can be found at https://www.keycloak.org. Keycloak enjoys a great deal of popularity across the globe and is highly rated as a safe and reliable solution which has a very strong community behind it.
From a user standpoint, the clear benefit is being able to use one ID and password across Collective IQ® and SmartCenter™ products. This makes things simpler for end-users and administrators alike.
The switch to SSO is already underway. As the change-over occurs, you will be notified of a one-time need to select a new password when logging onto Collective IQ® or SmartCenter™. From then on, each access to a product will be via that logon ID and the new password.
SSO Go Live
We anticipate that all users will have been switched over by Monday, June 3rd 2024. This is a necessary, non-harmful procedure as Almaden can import user IDs but has no access to encrypted passwords.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Customer Support, or check the SSO page on this site.
Single Sign-On
SSO (Single Sign-On) is an authentication mechanism that allows a user to access multiple systems or applications with a single login session.
Instead of having to log in separately to each system (SmartCenter and CIQ), the user can authenticate once and then gain access in both.
With the change when accessing the SmarCenter or CIQ addresses (URL), you will be redirected to this login screen below:
For example:
You accessed the SmartCenter URL as usual:
(https://lad2-smartcenter.almaden.app/), you will be redirected to this login screen above, enter your credentials and when logging in, you will be redirected back to the SmartCenter environment.
After completing the login and being redirected to the SmartCenter, if you try to access the CIQ URL (https://lad2-ciq.almaden.app/), you will no longer need to perform another authentication.
It works the same if you access CIQ first and then try to access the SmartCenter URL.
The same session will be used for both environments, remembering that after 15 minutes of the last action on the portals without interaction, the session will automatically end.
