Success Story: Convenient Authentication and Authorization at DLG

The German Agricultural Society (DLG) stands for innovation and networking in the agriculture and food industry. As part of this mission, it provides a wide range of digital services for its more than 29,000 members. As the implementation partner, we helped DLG standardize its authentication processes while making them more user-friendly at the same time. Over the years, DLG’s websites, ticket shops, apps and communities have continued to grow. This resulted in separate registration and login processes for individual services, multiple user accounts and, ultimately, a high administrative burden for DLG. With cidaas’s Cloud Identity & Access Management, these services can now be brought together under a single, centralized identity. Members, trade fair visitors and other interested parties register once and can then access all connected services – secured by single sign-on, multi-factor authentication (MFA), progressive profiling, group management and comprehensive user self-services.

Our role as a cidaas partner

Our umbrella.associates team supported the project as an implementation partner from initial concept through to go-live. Our work covered four key areas:

• Requirements analysis and architecture: Together, we assessed the existing digital landscape and designed the target CIAM architecture, including the identity, role and group models.
• Set-up and configuration: We supported the configuration of the cidaas platform, including login journeys, MFA policies, progressive profiling and self-service processes.
• Integration into the existing infrastructure: We managed the integration of existing applications and systems with the central authentication solution.
• Migration and go-live support: As part of the migration, we managed the transfer of existing user accounts to the centralized identity system. As with most of our projects, we then continued to support DLG throughout go-live and the subsequent stabilization phase.

The result is a seamless user experience across all of DLG’s digital services – combined with a high level of security and a noticeable reduction in administrative workload. DLG also benefits from a scalable foundation that makes it easy to integrate additional digital services at any time.

ℹ️ The full success story

Thcidaas has documented its collaboration with DLG in detail – including a direct quote from Guido Oppenhäuser, Head of Communications and Marketing at DLG: DLG is driving digitalization in the agriculture and food industry.

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