# Security Platform API Information

The information in this topic applies to developers who build Analytic Services applications and want to enable their applications to use the security platform for user authentication.

## External Authentication Login Functions

The following API functions have been added to the main and grid API interfaces to support client authentication to Analytic Services using tokens. Custom client-applications can use these functions to achieve single sign-on to Analytic Services.

- EssLoginEx()
- EssGConnectEx()

## Java API for the Security Platform

The security-integration SDK enables you to implement the security platform in custom Java applications, enabling the flexible, cross-platform use of a corporate authentication schema.

> Hyperion Security Integration SDK Reference

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