I am reviewing IDP for an implementation that I am currently working on.
Has any one on this forum implemented the Epicor IDP?
Any cautions that I should be aware of?
What are the benefits?
With anything Kinetic, it seems like we are still in the Beta phase and I am concerned about going down the IDP road.
THanks for any feedback.
Epicor IdP is not Kinetic related. It is the identity provider used by EpicWeb, EpicCare, and probably other Epicor services that I’m not aware (ECM?). So if you use the single sign on for those services, you have used Epicor IdP. My understanding that it is built on a popular identity provider used by many others and not beta at all. I think of it like Entra ID (aka Azure AD).
@Mark_Wonsil,
Actually, Epicor has implemented a new way of logging into your Cloud environment.
When I tried launching using the Smart Client into the Pilot environment - this popped up.
I did some addition research and in the sysconfig file the following is in the settings:
<AuthenticationMode value=“IdentityProvider” options=“Windows|AzureAD|IdentityProvider|Token|Basic”
Switching it to Basic - I was able to log in the “old” way of Vantage days.
In my research, using the IDP, a user is able to log into their environment and also able to log into Epicweb, etc.
When I was in cloud, they were testing both Azure AD and IdP for ERP, but all we had was Basic. Today, I would never use a cloud service that didn’t have multi-factor authentication like IdP or Entra ID. I would bet the day is coming where Epicor does not allow one to use Basic Auth for cloud users.
