Glossary

A list of terms that you may encounter while perusing this documentation or discussing the Digital.ai Platform.

Platform

A cloud-based hub that serves as the foundation for the entire Digital.ai ecosystem, providing a unified experience including integrated SSO, seamless user authentication, and more.

Digital.ai Identity

Unified identity management that allows users to seamlessly move between Digital.ai products and services. Also, the credentials used to log in to the Digital.ai Platform.

Account

An instance of the Digital.ai Platform dedicated to a specific customer, with a unique domain, users, data, and applications. Also known as a tenant.

Application

Any Digital.ai product or service (such as Intelligence or Continuous Testing) that is connected to the Platform in order to provide federated user access based on your IdP. Also known as a Client.

Single Sign-On (SSO)

An authentication method that allows users to log into multiple services and applications using the same credentials.

Identity provider (IdP)

A single sign-on service that owns and maintains a directory of user credentials and an authentication mechanism. For example, Azure AD or Okta.

Service provider

A web server that hosts a resource and provides access based on authentication information supplied by an identity provider. In this case, the Digital.ai applications such as Intelligence or Continuous Testing are considered service providers.

Identity broker

An intermediary service that connects a service provider to an identity provider. The Digital.ai Platform, and more specifically Digital.ai Identity, is the identity broker between your IdP and Digital.ai applications such as Intelligence or Continuous Testing.

Identity federation

A system of trust between two parties that links a user across each system without compromising security. As it relates to Digital.ai, the Platform handles user management by connecting to your IdP and then providing (federating) those users with access to your Digital.ai applications.

SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based open standard for exchanging authentication data across different systems.

OIDC

OpenID Connect (OIDC) is a JSON-based open protocol that extends OAuth 2.0 to add authentication data and allow for multiple connections to one IdP.

Mappers

Mappers are used to map user attributes coming from external Identity Providers to attributes in the Digital.ai Platform, and to map attributes going from the Digital.ai Platform to Applications. You can add mappers to ensure that user attributes are correctly integrated with the Digital.ai Platform.