What Is
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OneAdvanced Identity?
OneAdvanced Identity is a cross product identity service which offers customers a range of Authenication optons as well as better connectivity with other OneAdvanced Education products.
This replaces PICS native Two Factor Authenication solution, and gives customers the following benefits:
Centralized Authentication: OneAdvanced Identity allows for centralized authentication, meaning that user credentials are managed in one place. This facilitates better control and monitoring of access across OneAdvanced Education Products.
Various Multi-Factor Authication solutions: One Advanced OneAdvanced Identity offers customers multiple variations of MFA - this can be MFA utilising 3rd party mobile apps (Google & Microsoft Authenicator)
Adoption of Organisations Single Sign On solutions: OneAdvanced Identity can be configured to adopt your organisations single sign on solution. Allowing users within your organisation to sign in with your organisations user credentials.
Seamless Access: Users experience a seamless and integrated access to various applications across Advanced Education, contributing to a more positive user experience.
Reduced Password Fatigue: Users have to remember and manage fewer passwords since they only need to authenticate once to access multiple applications and services.
Centralised Password Policies: OneAdvanced Identity allows customers to set password policies that reflect their own internal policies.
What Multi Factor Authenication solutions does OneAdvanced Identity offer?
OneAdvanced Identity offer the following Multi-Factor Authenication options:
Email based Authenication
Third Party based Authenication via Authenicator Apps (Google & Microsoft Authenicator Apps)
Internal Single Sign On Solutions
What Single Sign On Solutions does OneAdvanced Identity offer?
Customers can choose to adopt their own single sign on solutions with OneAdvanced Identity.
SSO methodologies that OneAdvanced Identity supports include the following:
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Much like your PICS Environment, customers are responsible for the administration of the OneAdvanced Identity portal. Our support team will assist in the initial setup and configuration, but they will not have access to your data.
How are users created in OneAdvanced Identity?
This is broken down into two categorises:
Users that exist in PICS prior to OneAdvanced Identity being switched on will need to be created to be within the Identity Service. This is done by accessing the user within PICS and clicking a dedicated button to create them in OneAdvanced Idenity. For more information on this process please view Creating Users in OneAdvanced Identity.
Once OneAdvanced Identity has been switched on, any user that is created in PICS is automatically created within OneAdvanced Identity.
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