Federated authentication

You can use your own email addresses and passwords to control user access to IBM® Planning Analytics, which allows your organization to manage password complexity and expiration rules, and other password settings.

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 and IBMid are used to implement federated authentication. A user logs in to Planning Analytics through the IBMid sign in page and authenticates through your organization's SAML identity provider. Configuring IBMid to use federated authentication does not require any changes to Planning Analytics security.

To enable federated authentication, review the IBMid Enterprise Federation onboarding process (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ief) with your IT organization, and then open a case at MySupport (https://ibm.com/mysupport) with product IBMid Enterprise Federation.