Trimble ID Federation

Trimble ID federation allows an organization to use their existing enterprise identity provider (IdP) to log in to Trimble ID. TID federation can be created with most established enterprise IdP solutions, such as Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), ADFS, Okta, Google, using either Open ID Connect (OIDC) or SAML protocols.

Separately, the Trimble GIS integration allows a user to log in once with Trimble ID and then use the resources from their GIS infrastructure without logging in again to ArcGIS. This feature is completely independent of TID federation status; it can be used regardless of whether it’s a native TID user or a federated TID user.

NOTE: Trimble ID Federation and/or GIS integration is different from the traditional Trimble Unity Maintain and Permit Single Sign-on which allowed users to log in to Trimble Unity using their ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS credentials. See Traditional Single Sign-on through ArcGIS Credentials for more information.

In the traditional Trimble Unity Single Sign-on, a Trimble Unity Maintain and Permit user is instead federated to an ArcGIS Identity (either ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Portal), and then uses either ArcGIS built-in identity or federated identity (i.e., with an enterprise identity provider, such as Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), ADFS, Okta, Google, etc).

In the TID federation model, the Trimble Unity Maintain and Permit user is federated directly with the enterprise identity provider. The ArcGIS Identity integration is achieved through the separate TID/GIS integration feature.