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Provisioning of users on supported apps

Robert Sanders
suggested this on May 06, 2010 08:16 am

Now that I have 30 odd apps configured, it occurs to me that adding a new employee to our non-shared-login corporate apps still requires 2N+1 transactions:

1. Add the new employee as a OneLogin user. 

2. The first N transactions: For every non-shared-login app that employee might use (a couple dozen for me), I have to login to that app as an admin and create a login for the new employee, granting the appropriate privileges, etc.

3. The second N transactions: Configure those credentials in each corresponding app of the employee's OneLogin user account. 

Similar steps are involved when an employee leaves.  This isn't a big deal for my company yet, but I can foresee it being a win for certain apps used by high turnover employees, like ticketing systems for support techs, that really require non-shared login to work properly.

I know this is about a thousand times harder than just automating login, and OneLogin is extremely nice even without it, but it would completely eliminate the headache involved in handling staffing changes.

The SaaS / web app revolution killed LDAP as the answer for painless employee provisioning.  Maybe you can be the new one!

 

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Thomas Pedersen
OneLogin Support

The goal here is really to eliminate passwords wherever possible as not only makes logins more secure, but also a lot easier to manage. The holy grail is to have both SSO and provisioning for all apps, but we're years away from that as most applications don't yet have the necessary APIs. That said, we have something very cool in the works that we can share with you soon. 

May 06, 2010 08:28 am.
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Graham Robson

Hi Thomas - any updates on this yet?

November 03, 2010 01:37 am.
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Thomas Pedersen
OneLogin Support

Yes, next week.

November 13, 2010 10:56 pm.
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Markus Simpson

Hi Thomas - any updates on this yet?

Thanks

February 25, 2011 09:14 pm.