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# About Identity Gateway and the Advanced Identity Cloud

Advanced Identity Cloud simplifies the consumption of ForgeRock as an Identity Platform. However, many organizations have business web applications and APIs deployed across multiple clouds, or on-premise.

Identity Gateway facilitates non-intrusive integration of your web applications and APIs with the Advanced Identity Cloud, for SSO and API Security. The following image illustrates how Identity Gateway bridges your business to the Advanced Identity Cloud:

![Identity Gateway bridges business applications and APIs to the Advanced Identity Cloud.](_images/idc.png)

Learn about Advanced Identity Cloud in the [Advanced Identity Cloud](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingoneaic/home.html) documentation.