Organizations

Organizations#

What is organization#

Organization in Bacularis is a named set of users. It is a logical user group that usually reflects real-world user groups, such as:

  • company employees,

  • members of departments

  • groups of customers

  • teams

  • users divided by some criterias (age, country, state …etc.)

  • others.

This feature has been added to Bacularis in version 5.4.0.

Purpose#

There are at least five main organization use cases:

  • Divide users into logical groups. This makes it easier to manage users, especially if their number is large (e.g. 10 thousand users).

  • Use an identity provider (IdP). Identity providers are only available through organizations.

  • User federations. This makes it possible to use multiple organizations in different domains. Each organization’s users use their own dedicated identity provider for authentication.

  • Single Sign-On (SSO). If your identity provider supports single sign-on (SSO), your users can use it if they are members of your organization.

  • Social login. Logging in using a social media account (e.g. Google, Facebook…) is possible through the organization.

When to use#

Certainly, organizations enable advanced integration of Bacularis with existing corporate identity and access management (IAM) infrastructure. With a central user database, administrators can manage users much more easily. It is also easier for users who can remember just one login and password instead of many and use them across all company services.

If you need to manage a large number of users, the natural choice seems to be to divide them into groups, which in this case are organizations.

How to create it#

Organizations can be created on the Security page on the Organizations tab. There is a button to create new organization.

[Main menu] => [Page: Security] => [Tab: Organizations]
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