Identity Services allow you to integrate established repositories of user information into your portal.

Users, groups, and group membership configuration can be imported into the portal. Users logging into the portal can be authenticated against the existing system of record. Information about users can be imported from any number of external sources and mapped to portal properties, which can then be made available to the portal or other services.

• Authentication services are used to import users into the portal and authenticate them against a back-end system. For details, see About Authentication Services (AWS)
• Profile services are used to import information about existing portal users from external systems and map that information to portal properties. For details, see About Profile Services (PWS)

In addition to the authentication and profile services, the following functionality is available to control portal users in your implementation:

• Experience definitions let you tailor portal experiences for different groups of users. For details, see the portal online help.
• Remote User Operations allow you to access and manage portal users from remote applications. For details, see About Remote User Operations.