Top Six Things to Consider with an Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) Solution – Blog 3 of 6

3. Complete App Access Lifecycle Management

When a user is new to the organization or takes on a different role within the company, an IDaaS solution should make it easy — and automatic — for you to provision users to cloud or on-premises apps with automated account creation, role-based license and authorization management, single sign-on, mobile app client management and automated account deprovisioning. This automation frees up your precious few IT resources and empowers the user to be productive sooner than through existing and often manual onboarding checklists.

Full app access lifecycle management offers key benefits, enabling IT organizations to save time and money by automatically creating user accounts across cloud apps for new employees. Provisioning can eliminate helpdesk calls by allowing you to deploy the right apps — with the right access — the very first time. Provisioning eliminates any follow-on tasks by IT for enabling the user, and also eliminates user confusion. Automatic identity federation provides single sign-on to those apps, without requiring multiple passwords that can be easily lost, stolen or forgotten. Role-based licensing and authorization management for key apps such as Office 365, Salesforce, Box, and more further reduces your IT burden and allows you to quickly get users productive. The same capabilities make it possible to offboard users automatically (disabling or removing users from a group triggers user account de-provisioning) ensuring security and compliance by removing access immediately, removing mobile client apps and their data, instantly deactivating app accounts, and freeing up app licenses.