Provisioning

Provisioning is the process of making information technology (IT) systems available to users. Depending on your organization’s needs, provisioning can be defined at the network, server, application, and user level: Network provisioning involves setting up a network that can be accessed by users, servers, and devices. The telecommunications…

Think about it: when you buy yourself a new laptop or smartphone, it doesn’t just start working as soon as you walk out of the store. You have to set up a profile, install software, and likely transfer data and applications from your previous device. And while that may take some time upfront, the result is a personalized device that makes your…

Star Trek fans: It’s time for your IT department to boldly go where no IT department has gone before.... For years, the head of IT played the role of Scotty, the long-suffering engineer aboard Captain Kirk’s starship Enterprise. The job was to keep the engines running while the folks on the bridge came up with the strategy. As today’s companies…

Few people will argue that the hardest part of starting a new job is, well, starting a new job. The excitement of a new professional challenge often gets overshadowed by the struggle of getting the tools and resources needed to do the job. According to Namely analytics, growing companies onboard 30 new employees, on average, each month. However,…

As a growing company, you have part-time employees, seasonal interns, partners, and contractors who all require access to your corporate apps and data. With these users coming and going at different times, and potentially spread across different departments and geographies, it’s easy to lose track of permissions and whose access must be revoked…

With the increased adoption of cloud services, and in order to keep pace with innovation and the requirement for every organization to develop applications, IT is facing some new and complex problems. IT teams today are constantly striving to improve productivity and security for both their own internal processes, but also for end-users, who are…

Like all start-ups, Massdrop started small. Really small. A-bunch-of-Canadian-guys-working-out-of-a-house small. But their concept was huge, and it didn’t take long for Massdrop’s e-commerce site to take off. That success isn’t surprising, since the idea behind the retail site is truly innovative—it allows individuals to join interest-based…

A confluence of innovations, from the proliferation of SaaS apps to cloud computing, have revolutionized the way businesses engage with technology. Yet many business practices can be complicated by these innovations. Employees require more tools on more devices to do their jobs and organizations are confronting trends like data breaches, high…

SCIM, or System for Cross-domain Identity Management, is an open standard that allows for the automation of user provisioning. It was created in 2011 as it became clear that the technology of the future would be cloud-based. SCIM communicates user identity data between identity providers (such as companies with multiple individual users) and…

Interested in how Okta works with cloud app vendors to enable the latest in advanced user provisioning? Or are you curious to get an insider’s take on our new provisioning developer program? We recently chatted with Rob Christiansen, director of product management at Lucid Software, to understand why Lucid chose to work with Okta to enable user…