If your company uses a number of QAD products, you can use SAML authentication to validate user credentials for all of these products by checking a single credentials repository. Regardless of this single credentials repository, PRECISION requires that user information exists in the PRECISION user table. You can use Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) to populate the PRECISION user table.

DSML is an open standard for automatically extracting information from an LDAP repository. Using DSML, you can submit an XML request using a SOAP API and then build the table of PRECISION users based on the XML response. You can submit the XML request manually from the Web UI, as described in Running DSML User Synchronization Manually, or schedule XML requests to be sent at regular intervals, as described in Running DSML User Synchronization as a Batch Job.

Before running the DSML synchronization, see Setting Up DSML in PRECISION for information on how to set up DSML mapping of content in XML messages to the PRECISION user table.