STS overview

Infor STS facilitates and provides standards-based single sign-on (SSO) services to users of Infor business applications when federated with an identity provider such as Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and/or an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) service such as Microsoft Active Directory (MS AD).

Infor STS is a web-based service and supports the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and WS-Federation protocol standards for providing browser-based single sign-on to users of Infor applications. When the Infor STS is configured with multiple external identity providers (IdP), it supports Home Realm Discovery (HDR) and allows users and service providers (SP) to specify the IdP for authentication.

Infor STS can act as both the identity provider (IdP) and service provider (SP). Infor STS, in the role of identity provider, authenticates the users and issues the token to the Infor applications. Infor STS can be configured as the service provider to delegate the authentication to customer identity providers.