<h2>Multi-Provider Single sign-on (SSO)</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2024" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2024" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="concept" /><meta name="DC.title" content="Multi-Provider Single sign-on (SSO)" /><meta name="abstract" content="External SSO allows organizations to use several SSO identity providers (IdPs) to manage authentication as well as retain local database (basic) authentication." /><meta name="description" content="External SSO allows organizations to use several SSO identity providers (IdPs) to manage authentication as well as retain local database (basic) authentication." /><meta name="DC.subject" content="single sign-on, multi-provider" /><meta name="keywords" content="single sign-on, multi-provider" /><meta name="DC.creator" content="ServiceNow" /><meta name="DC.date.created" content="2023-02-02" /><meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2023-02-02" /><meta name="DC.format" content="XHTML" /><meta name="DC.identifier" content="c_MultipleProviderSingleSignOn" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../CSS/commonltr.css" /><title>Multi-Provider Single sign-on (SSO)</title></head><body id="c_MultipleProviderSingleSignOn"> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Multi-Provider Single sign-on (SSO)</h1> <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">External SSO allows organizations to use several SSO identity providers (IdPs) to manage authentication as well as retain local database (basic) authentication.</p> <div class="p">The integration supports any combination of local and external authentication methods on a single instance:<ul class="ul" id="c_MultipleProviderSingleSignOn__ul_sqm_bhw_fp"><li class="li">SAML 2.0</li><li class="li">Digest Authentication</li><li class="li">OpenID Connect</li></ul> </div> <p class="p">You must perform several steps to set up Multi-Provider SSO, including configuring properties, creating identity providers (IdPs), and configuring users to use SSO.</p> <p class="p">For example, a globally dispersed corporation might require one SSO provider for their employees, a different one for their vendors, and local database authentication for their administrators. Alternatively, a company might implement SAML 2.0 and a digest token authentication solutions on the same instance.</p> </div> </body></html></div>