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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with Dow Jones Factiva

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In this tutorial, you learn how to integrate Dow Jones Factiva with Microsoft Entra ID. Integrating Dow Jones Factiva with Microsoft Entra ID provides you with the following benefits:

  • You can control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Dow Jones Factiva.
  • You can enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Dow Jones Factiva (Single Sign-On) with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • You can manage your accounts in one central location.

If you want to know more details about SaaS app integration with Microsoft Entra ID, see What is application access and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID. If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.

Prerequisites

To configure Microsoft Entra integration with Dow Jones Factiva, you need the following items:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a Microsoft Entra environment, you can get one-month trial here
  • Dow Jones Factiva single sign-on enabled subscription

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on in a test environment.

  • Dow Jones Factiva supports IDP initiated SSO

To configure the integration of Dow Jones Factiva into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Dow Jones Factiva from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

To add Dow Jones Factiva from the gallery, perform the following steps:

  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 search box, type Dow Jones Factiva, select Dow Jones Factiva from result panel then click Add button to add the application.

    Dow Jones Factiva in the results list

Configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on

In this section, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Dow Jones Factiva based on a test user called Britta Simon. For single sign-on to work, a link relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in Dow Jones Factiva needs to be established.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Dow Jones Factiva, you need to complete the following building blocks:

  1. Configure Microsoft Entra Single Sign-On - to enable your users to use this feature.
  2. Configure Dow Jones Factiva Single Sign-On - to configure the Single Sign-On settings on application side.
  3. Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Britta Simon.
  4. Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable Britta Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
  5. Create Dow Jones Factiva test user - to have a counterpart of Britta Simon in Dow Jones Factiva that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
  6. Test single sign-on - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra single sign-on

In this section, you enable Microsoft Entra single sign-on.

To configure Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Dow Jones Factiva, perform the following steps:

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

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Dow Jones Factiva application integration page, select Single sign-on.

    Configure single sign-on link

  3. On the Select a Single sign-on method dialog, select SAML/WS-Fed mode to enable single sign-on.

    Single sign-on select mode

  4. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, click Edit icon to open Basic SAML Configuration dialog.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, the user does not have to perform any step as the app is already pre-integrated with Azure.

    Dow Jones Factiva Domain and URLs single sign-on information

  6. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Download to download the Federation Metadata XML from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up Dow Jones Factiva section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

    a. Login URL

    b. Microsoft Entra Identifier

    c. Logout URL

Configure Dow Jones Factiva Single Sign-On

To configure single sign-on on Dow Jones Factiva side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Dow Jones Factiva support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

The objective of this section is to create a test user called Britta 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 enable Britta Simon to use Azure single sign-on by granting access to Dow Jones Factiva.

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

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Dow Jones Factiva.

    Enterprise applications blade

  3. In the applications list, select Dow Jones Factiva.

    The Dow Jones Factiva link in the Applications list

  4. In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.

  5. 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.

Create Dow Jones Factiva test user

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

Test single sign-on

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration using the Access Panel.

When you click the Dow Jones Factiva tile in the Access Panel, you should be automatically signed in to the Dow Jones Factiva for which you set up SSO. For more information about the Access Panel, see Introduction to the Access Panel.

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