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Understanding services, entitlements, and groups

Services are applications, often located in the cloud, that users need to access. For example, 
Microsoft 365
BlackBerry Workspaces
, or 
WebEx
. By configuring a service in 
BlackBerry UEM
BlackBerry UEM Cloud
, or 
BlackBerry Enterprise Identity
, you set up a secure interface between 
Enterprise Identity
 and your instance, or tenant, of that service. After you use 
BlackBerry UEM
 or 
BlackBerry UEM Cloud
 to add a service, you use the 
BlackBerry UEM
 management console to manage the service and deploy entitlements for the service to users.
The most efficient way to entitle users is with app groups. An app group can bind together both the SSO entitlement for a service and the client applications needed on devices to interact with the service. You can assign app groups to users or user groups, giving them everything they need to access the service. 
User groups give administrators flexibility to entitle large numbers of users at the same time instead of maintaining the entitlement manually as users are added or removed from the group. When a user is added to the group, the entitlement is assigned to them automatically, allowing them to sign into the service from any device using the same credentials. If a user is removed from the group, they automatically lose access to that service. Service entitlements can also be assigned to individual users if required.
Term
Description
Service
Services include 
Workspaces
Box
Workday
WebEx
Salesforce
 and others, including custom services.
Entitlement
An entitlement is a service assignment made using 
BlackBerry UEM
 that tells 
Enterprise Identity
 to provide single sign-on access to a service for a given user or group.
App group
An app group is a collection of apps that can include the single sign-on entitlement and the associated binaries for mobile devices.
User
A user is a 
BlackBerry UEM
 user.
User group
A user group is a collection of 
BlackBerry UEM
 users.