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title: Identity Cloud guide
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# Identity Cloud guide

This guide is for Advanced Identity Cloud evaluators, administrators, and architects. It provides examples of how to integrate your business application and APIs with Advanced Identity Cloud for Single Sign-On and API Security, with ForgeRock Identity Gateway.

## Example installation for this guide

Unless otherwise stated, the examples in this guide assume the following installation:

* Identity Gateway installed in standalone mode, on `http://ig.example.com:8080`, as described in [Download and start IG in standalone mode](../getting-started/start-product.html#starting-standalone).

* Sample application installed on `http://app.example.com:8081`, as described in [Using the sample application](../getting-started/start-sampleapp.html).

* An Advanced Identity Cloud tenant with the default configuration. Learn more in the [Advanced Identity Cloud](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingoneaic/home.html) documentation.

When you are using the Advanced Identity Cloud, you need to know the value of the following properties:

* The root URL of your Advanced Identity Cloud. For example, `https://myTenant.forgeblocks.com`.

  The URL of the Access Management component of the Advanced Identity Cloud is the root URL of your Advanced Identity Cloud followed by `/am`. For example, `https://myTenant.forgeblocks.com/am`.

* The realm where you work. The examples in this document use `alpha`.

  Prefix each realm in the hierarchy with the `realms` keyword. For example, `/realms/root/realms/alpha`.

If you use a different configuration, substitute in the procedures accordingly.