Introduction

Recently, there have been questions from customers, partners and the community asking for comparisons between Joget Workflow and Microsoft SharePoint. Actually, the two products are not competing, but in fact complement each other.

SharePoint is a web application portal platform for team collaboration, intranets and enterprise document and content management. While it is possible to extend the capabilities of SharePoint through apps, developing apps for SharePoint is not easy as it requires traditional programming, as described in the SharePoint 2013 development overview article at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj164084.aspx. 

On the other hand, Joget is a platform to easily build web apps and automate processes. With single sign-on (SSO) integration from SharePoint to Joget, organizations can easily extend the capability of SharePoint by allowing users to seamlessly access custom apps, visually design their own custom applications, or download ready made apps from the Joget Marketplace. 

This article describes how SSO can be achieved using Active Directory Federation Services (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897402.aspx), which supports the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standard.