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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with BIC Process Design

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate BIC Process Design with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate BIC Process Design with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to BIC Process Design.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to BIC Process Design with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • BIC Process Design single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Note

This integration is also available to use from Microsoft Entra US Government Cloud environment. You can find this application in the Microsoft Entra US Government Cloud Application Gallery and configure it in the same way as you do from public cloud.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO in a test environment.

To configure the integration of BIC Process Design into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add BIC Process Design from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.
  3. In the Add from the gallery section, type BIC Process Design in the search box.
  4. Select BIC Process Design from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.

Alternatively, you can also use the Enterprise App Configuration Wizard. In this wizard, you can add an application to your tenant, add users/groups to the app, assign roles, as well as walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for BIC Process Design

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with BIC Process Design using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in BIC Process Design.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with BIC Process Design, perform the following steps:

  1. Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
    1. Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.
    2. Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
  2. Configure BIC Process Design SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create BIC Process Design test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in BIC Process Design that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > BIC Process Design > Single sign-on.

  3. On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

  4. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you have Service Provider metadata file, perform the following steps:

    a. Click Upload metadata file.

    Upload metadata file

    b. Click on folder logo to select the metadata file and click Upload.

    choose metadata file

    c. After the metadata file is successfully uploaded, the Identifier value gets auto populated in Basic SAML Configuration section.

    d. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

    Sign-on URL
    https://<CUSTOMER_SPECIFIC_NAME/TENANT>.biccloud.com
    https://<CUSTOMER_SPECIFIC_NAME/TENANT>.biccloud.de

    Note

    If the Identifier value does not get auto populated, then please fill in the value manually according to your requirement. The Sign-on URL value is not real. Update this value with the actual Sign-on URL. Contact BIC Process Design Client support team to get this value. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  6. BIC Process Design application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format, which requires you to add custom attribute mappings to your SAML token attributes configuration. The following screenshot shows the list of default attributes.

    image

  7. In addition to above, BIC Process Design application expects few more attributes to be passed back in SAML response which are shown below. These attributes are also pre populated but you can review them as per your requirements.

    Name Source Attribute
    Name user.name
    E-Mail Address user.mail
    Name ID user.userprincipalname
    email user.mail
    nametest user.displayname

  8. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, In the SAML Signing Certificate section, click copy button to copy App Federation Metadata Url and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll create a test user called B.Simon.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
  3. Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
  4. In the User properties, follow these steps:
    1. In the Display name field, enter B.Simon.
    2. In the User principal name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example, B.Simon@contoso.com.
    3. Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
    4. Select Review + create.
  5. Select Create.

Assign the Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use single sign-on by granting access to BIC Process Design.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > BIC Process Design.
  3. In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user/group, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
    1. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
    2. If you are expecting a role to be assigned to the users, you can select it from the Select a role dropdown. If no role has been set up for this app, you see "Default Access" role selected.
    3. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure BIC Process Design SSO

To configure single sign-on on BIC Process Design side, you need to send the App Federation Metadata Url to BIC Process Design support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create BIC Process Design test user

In this section, you create a user called B.Simon in BIC Process Design. Work with BIC Process Design support team to add the users in the BIC Process Design platform. Users must be created and activated before you use single sign-on.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

  • Click on Test this application, this will redirect to BIC Process Design Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to BIC Process Design Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the BIC Process Design tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to BIC Process Design Sign-on URL. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure BIC Process Design you can enforce session control, which protects exfiltration and infiltration of your organization’s sensitive data in real time. Session control extends from Conditional Access. Learn how to enforce session control with Microsoft Cloud App Security.