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This is the landing page of SURFconext. From here on you can navigate through our documentation and find out what SURFconext can do for you and how to get connected. Administrators and engineers from both Identity Providers (IdP's) as well as Service Providers (SP's), or Relying Parties (RP's) in OIDC terminology, can start here.
SURFconext offers 'Single Sign On'-access to a large and increasing number of online services . Almost 120 About 200 Dutch organisations organizations in the area of secondary vocational-, higher education and research are already using SURFconext for this. Together these . Amongst the most used services are: Google Apps for Education, SURFspot, Legal Intelligence and several library services.
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organizations represent a group of about 1.5 million users who generate millions of logins per month . SURFconext allows users to have access to services offered by multiple Service Providers using only 1 account. Get to know more SURFconext here and watch a short introduction video.
Whether you find connecting to SURFconext easy or not, depends on your knowledge and background of our used protocols. Developers familiar with these are able to connect services within a days work. Take your time to get to know SAML or OpenID Connect. These are open standards and used in most countries and many sectors. So whenever and wherever you're offering your service, you can re-use this time and effort you've put into connecting to SURFconext.
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An Identity Provider is an organization which provides information about the identity of a user that makes authentication of a user possible. Examples of Identity Providers are Universities and research institutions. These organizations deliver the identities for their students and employees. Documentation for Identity Providers (Dutch)
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A Service Provider (SP) is an organization which delivers content and services that are available via the internet. For example: Web shops, video services and publishers but also educational institutions which offer online courses for students from other institutions. Examples are SURFspot, Google Apps for Education and Edugroepen. Documentation for Service Providers (English)
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Contact us!
If you have any questions you can get in touch with us for answers to all of your questions about SURFconext. We prefer to be contacted by mail at support@surfconext.nl. Support by mail allows us to send and receive links, screenshots, metadata and lot's more, helping us to answer your questions more efficiently. If you think this doesn't work for you or you are having trouble formulating your question and prefer to talk to us directly, we will give you a call. Send us a mail with your contact information, including your phone number of course, and we will get back to you
What advantages does SURFconext offer for my organisation?
The group of almost 120 organisations in The Netherlands who use SURFconext, consists of universities, university hospitals and tertiary medical teaching hospitals, universities of applied sciences and research institutions. Together they represent a group of 1 million users. These users generate almost 2 milion logins per month, using more than 100 different cloud services.
SURFconext allows users to have access to services offered by multiple Service Providers using only 1 account. Besides, SURFconext facilitates online collaboration in the cloud, both between users within the same organisation as between users from different organisations.
If you connect your organisation to SURFconext, you will enjoy the following advantages:
- By connecting to SURFconext only once, your users will have access to all available services.
- You don't have to implement and maintain a custom made connection to each service or Service Provider seperately.
- You can regulate authorisation for entire groups of students and employees easily.
- The number of available services is ever growing, since more and more organisations choose to use SURFconext.
- You can integrate your internal authorization resources with SURFconext.
- SURFconext offers more flexible and cheaper licences.
- Easy integration of services thanks to open standards
Why should I connect to SURFconext?
The number of available cloud services is growing quickly. Most organisations consider to use these services combined with internally hosted services. Besides, organisations want to offer a secure environment where both internal and external services can be used side by side. Important elements for this are Single Sign-On, trusted identity and collaboration in groups and teams. Organisations are looking for possibilities to integrate these different kinds of applications. SURFconext offers starting points to realise this.