IBM SmartCloud™ for Social Business uses the Open Authorization (OAuth) protocol for API access. OAuth is a protocol that provides a way for company applications to interact with APIs on the behalf of users without knowing their authentication credentials.

Single signon (SSO) allows users to use a single set of credentials to access multiple systems. For better usability and tighter integration, IBM SmartCloud™ for Social Business allows SSO capabilities for partner applications.

Open Authorization (OAuth) is an open standardsbased security architecture and protocol that authorizes users to share data with thirdparty applications and other services without sharing passwords. Widgets use OAuth to authorize with the product server.

IBM SmartCloud™ for Social Business uses the Open Authorization (OAuth) protocol for API access. OAuth is a protocol that provides a way for company applications to interact with APIs on the behalf of users without knowing their authentication credentials.

The Social Business Toolkit is a set of extensible tools and resources for developers who want to incorporate social capabilities into their applications and business processes. Social capabilities include features and functionality that tap into the power of social interactions, business ...

An embedded experience is an information delivery model in which content from an external source is embedded into an OpenSocial container in an activity stream or inbox. The goal of embedded experiences is for users to be able to interact dynamically with external content directly in context ...

Before using IBM SmartCloud™ SaaS Business Support System (BSS) APIs, you must set up a vendor and get authorization to call APIs.

Social networking has become a popular tool in the consumer world with such sites as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, and more. Although each site has its own unique characteristics, a common denominator is an aggregation of activities that are personalized for the user and then dynamically ...

Open Authorization (OAuth) is an open standard that users can use to share data between services without sharing passwords. OAuth has been adopted by many companies, especially social software applications on the web, to make data available to external applications. The toolkit provides an ...

The IBM® Social Business Toolkit provides Open Authorization (OAuth) protocol capability for authorizing web applications and clients when accessing toolkitbased applications. OAuth is an open standard that allows users to share data between services without the need to share passwords. OAuth has ...

The IBM® Social Business Toolkit includes activity streams and event aggregation, social business APIs, services, developer tools, and examples and prototypes.

Learn how to connect to the OAuth provider on Lotus® Greenhouse with the OAuth Java™ library.