OAuth is an open standard for access delegation. It is commonly used as a way for internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords.  

Technically, tokens are permissions granted to aclient application. The resource server can validate the tokens and allow the client application to access the defined protected resources. The portfolio of conemis connectors also supports OAuth. 

An advantage of using OAuth is that users don’t have to provide a user name and password, with a security token appended in some cases. This applies, for instance, when it comes to extracting data via a conemis connector, or to load data. Instead, users can authenticate the API integration using a single sign-on mechanism based on the OAuth industry standard. 

Salesforce provides an OAuth authorization flow for client applications to access REST API resources. So, for the conemis Salesforce connector, customers can use OAuth authorization to approve access for the connector to their orgs.  

Learn more about conemis connectors here.

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