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Glossary

Chemaxon Cloud

  • Software as a Service solution, providing administrative and end user functionalities around Teams and Applications
  • Abbreviated as: CXN Cloud, CXNC

Team

  • Represents a single environment for an external client - a company buying products of Chemaxon - of Chemaxon Cloud
    • A client is not restricted to have only a single Team, they can have multiple
    • In practice a client might have multiple Teams, due to requiring multiple deployment environments, especially - early on when they start using Chemaxon Cloud, environments such as:
      • Staging or Testing
      • Production
  • Is generally a boundary for data - usually data stays within its Team
  • Accessed via dedicated subdomain of Chemaxon Cloud (e.g. https://team-1.cloud.chemaxon.com)
  • Also known as Tenant in Chemaxon Cloud
  • Represented as an Okta Application in Okta

Application

  • Not to be confused with an Okta Application
  • Interpreted in the context of Chemaxon Cloud
  • Usually meaning a Chemaxon Product
  • Potentially an external 3rd party product (e.g. LabCup)
  • Registered into and integrated with a Team of Chemaxon Cloud

Okta Application

  • Not to be confused with an Application in Chemaxon Cloud
  • Configuration and metadata representing an application (web, SPA or mobile) that wants to use Okta for authentication and authorization
  • In the current architecture, a Team in Chemaxon Cloud is represented as an Okta Application in Okta
  • Used as the “common denominator” for
    • A specific Team in Chemaxon Cloud
    • And the Chemaxon Applications registered under the very same Team