Ping Documentation

The document in its current state is a dumping ground for links and information as I learn about PingOne, PingFederate, and other related technologies.

Contact Info

There is a slack channel called ext-topcon-ping where we can interact with our Ping account rep Maddie Burns (@maddieburns).

Tools

Product	URL	Description	Comments
PingOne	https://console.pingone.com/	PingOne is Ping Identity’s cloud-based Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) platform designed to simplify and secure identity and access management (IAM) across customer, workforce, and B2B use cases. It provides things like SSO, MFA, Access Management, Federated Identity Management using SAML and OAuth, and Identity Governance (user provisioning, password management, etc).	What role does PingOne play compared to PingFederate?
PingFederate	QA: https://admin.us.qa.auth.topcon.com/	PingFederate is an enterprise-grade federation server developed by Ping Identity that enables secure user authentication and standards-based single sign-on (SSO) across diverse applications, platforms, and identity providers. PingFederate acts as a global authentication authority, allowing employees, customers, and partners to securely access applications from any device. It supports both inbound and outbound SSO, meaning it can authenticate users from external identity providers or allow internal users to access external services. Use Cases: Workforce IAM: Simplifies employee access to internal tools. Customer IAM (CIAM): Provides frictionless login experiences for end-users. Partner Access: Enables secure collaboration across organizational boundaries.	PingFederate is deployed and managed via the CIAM code base.
PingOne DaVinci	N/A	Da Vinci Forms are a feature within PingOne DaVinci, Ping Identity’s no-code identity orchestration platform. These forms allow you to create custom user interfaces that can be embedded directly into identity flows, enabling seamless and branded user interactions. Da Vinci Forms are customizable HTML forms that you build within the PingOne platform and use in DaVinci flows. These forms can be used for: User registration Login Multi-factor authentication Profile updates Consent collection Custom data input In DaVinci, a flow is a visual representation of a user journey through an identity process (e.g., authentication, registration). Each flow consists of nodes connected by logic operators. Da Vinci Forms are typically used in nodes that present pages to users, allowing you to collect input or display information as part of the flow	DaVinci forms are currently being used but are being deprecated in favor of custom forms/pages in CSSD. Those pages are not yet build.

Product

URL

Description

Comments

PingOne

https://console.pingone.com/

PingOne is Ping Identity’s cloud-based Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) platform designed to simplify and secure identity and access management (IAM) across customer, workforce, and B2B use cases. It provides things like SSO, MFA, Access Management, Federated Identity Management using SAML and OAuth, and Identity Governance (user provisioning, password management, etc).

What role does PingOne play compared to PingFederate?

PingFederate

QA: https://admin.us.qa.auth.topcon.com/

PingFederate is an enterprise-grade federation server developed by Ping Identity that enables secure user authentication and standards-based single sign-on (SSO) across diverse applications, platforms, and identity providers.

PingFederate acts as a global authentication authority, allowing employees, customers, and partners to securely access applications from any device. It supports both inbound and outbound SSO, meaning it can authenticate users from external identity providers or allow internal users to access external services.

Use Cases:
Workforce IAM: Simplifies employee access to internal tools.
Customer IAM (CIAM): Provides frictionless login experiences for end-users.
Partner Access: Enables secure collaboration across organizational boundaries.

PingFederate is deployed and managed via the CIAM code base.

PingOne DaVinci

N/A

Da Vinci Forms are a feature within PingOne DaVinci, Ping Identity’s no-code identity orchestration platform. These forms allow you to create custom user interfaces that can be embedded directly into identity flows, enabling seamless and branded user interactions.

Da Vinci Forms are customizable HTML forms that you build within the PingOne platform and use in DaVinci flows. These forms can be used for:

User registration
Login
Multi-factor authentication
Profile updates
Consent collection
Custom data input

In DaVinci, a flow is a visual representation of a user journey through an identity process (e.g., authentication, registration). Each flow consists of nodes connected by logic operators. Da Vinci Forms are typically used in nodes that present pages to users, allowing you to collect input or display information as part of the flow

DaVinci forms are currently being used but are being deprecated in favor of custom forms/pages in CSSD. Those pages are not yet build.

Documentation & Links

Name	URL	Description
Ping Support Portal	https://support.pingidentity.com/	All of the video and written training are found on the ping support portal. It is the same place that you would go to submit a ticket.
On-Demand Learning Paths	https://backstage.pingidentity.com/university/on-demand/category/on-demand	Under "training" then "product training" you can find On-Demand Learning Paths that has videos that can be very helpful.
PingOne DaVinci Docs	https://docs.pingidentity.com/davinci/davinci_landing_page.html	PingOne DaVinci is an orchestration platform that lets you create flows using connections and logical operators. These flows guide users through defined processes that can present customized pages, modify values, or perform other actions.
PingFederate Agentless Adapter Kit	https://docs.pingidentity.com/integrations/agentless/pf_agentless_ik.html	The Agentless Integration Kit allows PingFederate to integrate with identity provider (IdP) and service provider (SP) applications for single sign-on (SSO).