Prepare for Single Sign-On (SSO)

It is important that you make sure that SSO authentication is the right choice for your organization, so before you begin, we highly recommend taking a look at the Is SSO Right for You? section. You might need to consult with other PTC product administrators and identity provider administrators in your organization to configure other applications that are configured for SSO.

Identity and access management (IAM) and single sign-on (SSO) for the Vuforia Studio product suite follows the OpenID Connect specification for authentication and the OAuth 2.0 specification for delegated authorization. The following table shows the components in the Vuforia Studio product suite and how the roles that are defined by the specification are assigned to those components.

Component	OpenID Connect	OAuth 2.0
Vuforia View	User Agent	User Agent
Vuforia Studio	N/A	Public Client
Experience Service	Confidential Client	Confidential Client & Resource Server
ThingWorx Server	Resource Server	Resource Server

Before beginning your installation and configuring it to use SSO, it’s important that you have installed and configured a ThingWorx server for SSO.

For overview information about PTC’s single sign-on architecture, see the PTC Identity and Access Management Help Center.