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Microsoft Entra SSO integration with GovWin IQ

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate GovWin IQ with Microsoft Entra ID. GovWin IQ by Deltek is the industry-leading platform providing the most comprehensive market intelligence for U.S. federal, state and local, and Canadian governments. When you integrate GovWin IQ with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

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

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with GovWin IQ, you need:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • An active GovWin IQ Subscription. Single sign-on can be enabled at no cost. Make sure your Customer Success Manager has enabled a user at your organization as a SAML SSO Admin to perform the following steps.
  • All users must have same email address in Azure as provisioned in GovWin IQ.

Scenario description

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

  • GovWin IQ supports only SP initiated SSO.

Note

Identifier of this application is a fixed string value so only one instance can be configured in one tenant.

To configure the integration of GovWin IQ into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add GovWin IQ 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 GovWin IQ in the search box.
  4. Select GovWin IQ 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, and walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for GovWin IQ

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with GovWin IQ 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 GovWin IQ.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with GovWin IQ, perform the following steps:

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

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

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

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > GovWin IQ > 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.

    Screenshot shows how to edit Basic SAML Configuration.

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier textbox, type the URL: https://iq.govwin.com/cas

    b. In the Reply URL textbox, enter the value from the GovWin IQ Reply URL field.

    Reply URL will be of the following pattern: https://iq.govwin.com/cas/login?client_name=ORG_<ID>

    c. In the Sign on URL textbox, enter the value from the GovWIn IQ Sign On URL field.

    Sign on URL will be of the following pattern: https://iq.govwin.com/cas/clientredirect?client_name=ORG_<ID>

    Note

    Update these values with the actual Reply URL and Sign on URL found in the GovWin SAML Single Sign-On Configuration page, accessible by your designated SAML SSO Admin. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager for assistance. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

  6. 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.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link.

Assign the Microsoft Entra ID test user

In this section, you'll enable a test user to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on by granting access to GovWin IQ.

Note

The user selected for testing must have an existing active GovWin IQ account.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > GovWin IQ.
  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 a test user 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 GovWin IQ SSO

  1. Log in to GovWin IQ company site as the SAML SSO Admin user.

  2. Navigate to SAML Single Sign-On Configuration page and perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows settings of the configuration.

    1. Select Azure from the Identity Provider (IdP) dropdown.
    2. Copy Identifier (EntityID) value, paste this value into the Identifier textbox in the Basic SAML Configuration section in Microsoft Entra admin center.
    3. Copy Reply URL value, paste this value into the Reply URL textbox in the Basic SAML Configuration section in Microsoft Entra admin center.
    4. Copy Sign On URL value, paste this value into the Sign on URL textbox in the Basic SAML Configuration section in Microsoft Entra admin center.

  3. In the Metadata URL textbox, paste the App Federation Metadata Url, which you have copied from the Microsoft Entra admin center.

    Screenshot shows metadata of the configuration.

  4. Click Submit IDP Metadata.

Assign GovWin IQ test user to SSO

  1. In the SAML Single Sign-On Configuration page, navigate to Excluded Users tab and click Select Users to Exclude from SSO.

    Screenshot shows how to exclude users from the page.

    Note

    Here you can select users to include or exclude from SSO. If you have a webservices subscription, the webservices user should always be excluded from SSO.

  2. Next, click Exclude All Users from SSO for testing purposes. This is to prevent any impact to existing access for users while testing SSO.

  3. Next, select the test user and click Add Selected Users to SSO.

  4. Once testing is successful, add the rest of the users you want to enable for SSO.

Test SSO

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

Note

It may take up to 10 minutes for the configuration to sync.

  • Click on Test this application in Microsoft Entra admin center. This will redirect to GovWin IQ Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to GovWin IQ Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the GovWin IQ tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to GovWin IQ Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next Steps

Add all remaining users to the Microsoft Entra ID GovWin IQ app to enable SSO access. Once you configure GovWin IQ 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 Defender for Cloud Apps.