You will need to be familiar with the following terms and definitions to describe SAP CIAM for B2B:
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Admin / IT Admin | An administrator working in your organization, with the authority to configure your site settings and business flows in SAP Customer Data Cloud. |
| Organization | A partner organization with some degree of involvement with your business. |
| Delegated Admin | Administrator at the partner organization, also referred to as the "Organization Admin". |
| Member | Non-IT user at the partner organization who logs in to access one or more of your applications. |
| Role | An organizational role that is assigned to organization members (e.g. buyer, manager). One member can have several roles, and one role can belong to several members. |
| Department | The department to which an organization member belongs. |
| Trusted Application | An application where the SAP Customer Data Cloud access control capabilities have been implemented for both authentication and authorization of users. It's on the application that policies (PBAC) translate into affirmation or denial of user actions and access. |
| Asset | Assets of the application, whose access rights are handled by policies. |
| Access Policies | Fine-grained definitions of access rights of organization members to assets. |