Before you start

Skills required

To be able to implement Identity Hub, you must:

• know your environment and web server
• know your programming language
• be able to implement applications within your web services environment.

Accessing the service

To implement Identity Hub you must have a connection to the Identity Hub service. Experian provides two hosted services:

• UAT service - you use this when you need to test your application, for example during initial development. This service uses static test data. Because this service does not use live data, it does not leave a credit footprint

• Live service - you use this when your application goes live. This service accesses real data that is updated regularly. When you run a check against this service, it does leave a credit footprint.

To develop and test your application using the UAT service you must have:

• an SSL keystore
• WASP certificates for the UAT service
• URLs for the UAT WASP and Identity Hub services
• configured your firewall to allow connections to both WASP and Identity Hub UAT services.

Once you have developed and fully tested your application and you are ready to go live, you need to change from the UAT service to the Live service.

To change from UAT to Live, you must:

• obtain and use the WASP certificates for the Live service
• change the URLs to the URLs for the live WASP and Identity Hub services
• configure your firewall to allow connections to the live WASP and Identity Hub services.

Next step: Implementation steps

See also

• Coding hints and tips