Tutorial: Azure Active Directory integration with Predictix Assortment Planning
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Predictix Assortment Planning with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). This integration provides these benefits:
- You can use Azure AD to control who has access to Predictix Assortment Planning.
- You can enable your users to be automatically signed in to Predictix Assortment Planning (single sign-on) with their Azure AD accounts.
- You can manage your accounts in one central location: the Azure portal.
To learn more about SaaS app integration with Azure AD, see Single sign-on to applications in Azure Active Directory.
If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you start.
Prerequisites
To configure Azure AD integration with Predictix Assortment Planning, you need to have:
- An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have an Azure AD environment, you can get a free account.
- A Predictix Assortment Planning subscription that has single sign-on enabled.
Scenario description
In this tutorial, you'll configure and test Azure AD single sign-on in a test environment.
- Predictix Assortment Planning supports SP-initiated SSO.
Add Predictix Assortment Planning from the gallery
To set up the integration of Predictix Assortment Planning into Azure AD, you need to add Predictix Assortment Planning from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.
In the Azure portal, in the left pane, select Azure Active Directory:

Go to Enterprise applications > All applications:

To add an application, select New application at the top of the window:

In the search box, enter Predictix Assortment Planning. Select Predictix Assortment Planning in the search results and then select Add.

Configure and test Azure AD single sign-on
In this section, you'll configure and test Azure AD single sign-on with Predictix Assortment Planning by using a test user named Britta Simon. To enable single sign-on, you need to establish a relationship between an Azure AD user and the corresponding user in Predictix Assortment Planning.
To configure and test Azure AD single sign-on with Predictix Assortment Planning, you need to complete these steps:
- Configure Azure AD single sign-on to enable the feature for your users.
- Configure Predictix Assortment Planning single sign-on on the application side.
- Create an Azure AD test user to test Azure AD single sign-on.
- Assign the Azure AD test user to enable Azure AD single sign-on for the user.
- Create a Predictix Assortment Planning test user that's linked to the Azure AD representation of the user.
- Test single sign-on to verify that the configuration works.
Configure Azure AD single sign-on
In this section, you'll enable Azure AD single sign-on in the Azure portal.
To configure Azure AD single sign-on with Predictix Assortment Planning, take these steps:
In the Azure portal, on the Predictix Assortment Planning application integration page, select Single sign-on:

In the Select a single sign-on method dialog box, select SAML/WS-Fed mode to enable single sign-on:

On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, select the Edit icon to open the Basic SAML Configuration dialog box:

In the Basic SAML Configuration dialog box, complete the following steps.

In the Sign on URL box, enter a URL in this pattern:
https://<sub-domain>.ap.predictix.com/sso/request https://<sub-domain>.dev.ap.predictix.com/In the Identifier (Entity ID) box, enter a URL in this pattern:
https://<sub-domain>.ap.predictix.com https://<sub-domain>.dev.ap.predictix.com
Note
These values are placeholders. You need to use the actual sign-on URL and identifier. Contact the Predictix Assortment Planning support team to get the values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration dialog box in the Azure portal.
On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, select the Download link next to Certificate (Base64), per your requirements, and save the certificate on your computer:

In the Set up Predictix Assortment Planning section, copy the appropriate URLs, based on your requirements:

Login URL.
Azure AD Identifier.
Logout URL.
Configure Predictix Assortment Planning single sign-on
To configure single sign-on on the Predictix Assortment Planning side, you need to send the certificate that you downloaded and the URLs that you copied from the Azure portal to the Predictix Assortment Planning support team. This team ensures the SAML SSO connection is set properly on both sides.
Create an Azure AD test user
In this section, you'll create a test user named Britta Simon in the Azure portal.
In the Azure portal, select Azure Active Directory in the left pane, select Users, and then select All users:

Select New user at the top of the screen:

In the User dialog box, take the following steps.

In the Name box, enter BrittaSimon.
In the User name box, enter BrittaSimon@<yourcompanydomain>.<extension>. (For example, BrittaSimon@contoso.com.)
Select Show password, and then write down the value that's in the Password box.
Select Create.
Assign the Azure AD test user
In this section, you'll enable Britta Simon to use Azure AD single sign-on by granting her access to Predictix Assortment Planning.
In the Azure portal, select Enterprise applications, select All applications, and then select Predictix Assortment Planning.

In the list of applications, select Predictix Assortment Planning.

In the left pane, select Users and groups:

Select Add user, and then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog box.

In the Users and groups dialog box, select Britta Simon in the users list, and then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
If you expect a role value in the SAML assertion, in the Select Role dialog box, select the appropriate role for the user from the list. Click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
In the Add Assignment dialog box, select Assign.
Create a Predictix Assortment Planning test user
Next, you need to create a user named Britta Simon in Predictix Assortment Planning. Work with the Predictix Assortment Planning support team to add users. Users need to be created and activated before you use single sign-on.
Note
The Azure AD account holder receives an email and selects a link to confirm the account before it becomes active.
Test single sign-on
Now you need to test your Azure AD single sign-on configuration by using the Access Panel.
When you select the Predictix Assortment Planning tile in the Access Panel, you should be automatically signed in to the Predictix Assortment Planning instance for which you set up SSO. For more information, see Access and use apps on the My Apps portal.