Identity Challenges with Workday On-Demand HR
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Workday: Directory Integration Edition
Okta’s pre-integrated solution for Workday delivers:
- Single sign-on for Workday and all your cloud applications.
- Automated user management to efficiently and securely manage Workday accounts.
- Increased productivity for both administrators and Workday users.
- Usage and cost alignment to optimize your Workday ROI.
- Logging and reporting for a complete audit trail on Workday access.
Workday is one of the most popular on-demand human capital management (HCM) applications. Workday’s unified HR and talent management solution provides services such as workforce lifecycle management and employee benefit self-service that are used by all types of employees across all kinds of organizations—from HR administrators to managers and employees through self-service.
Because Workday is an HCM application, users need to have access starting from day one. This presents identity and access management challenges for both users and administrators. Users struggle to remember their usernames and passwords, and administrators are distracted by the resulting password reset requests.
When employees join your organization, they need immediate access to the HCM system to perform their daily tasks. When employees leave the organization, their Workday access must be promptly deactivated. For Workday customers where Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is a core piece of their identity management infrastructure, bridging Workday authentication and user management with AD can be challenging. There is no native integration that allows a user to log in to Workday with their AD credentials and integrates Workday access with an AD user lifecycle. As a result, even when a user is deactivated in AD, she is likely to still have access to Workday.
Further, organizations that adopt Workday typically value the benefits of software as a service (SaaS) and also deploy many other rapidly growing cloud applications like Salesforce.com, WebEx, GoToMeeting, NetSuite, Concur, and Google Apps, which exacerbates their single sign-on (SSO) and user management challenges.
Single Sign-On
Okta provides SSO with Workday using the industry-standard SAML protocol.
SSO for Workday and All Your Apps
Users can enjoy one-click access to Workday and any other cloud application through a graphical home page. With Okta Desktop Single Sign-On enabled, organizations can use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) for true SSO with Windows domain for any cloud application, regardless of authentication standard and including custom-built internal web apps.
Automate User Management
Okta automates user management by integrating with Workday Web Services (WWS) to manage access and usage across Workday and any other cloud application. By integrating with Active Directory, Okta also enables centralized administration of account access and account deactivation.
Seamless AD Integration
Integrate Active Directory and enable Okta Desktop Single Sign-On in under 30 minutes without making any changes to your firewall or purchasing any additional hardware or software to provide true SSO experience with Windows domain and automated user management.
Increased User and Administrator Productivity
Automating provisioning frees administrators to focus on higher-value tasks and ensures that users always have access to the applications they need.
Align Usage with Cost
Seat utilization and application ROI can be optimized both through dedicated utilization reporting based on access behavior, and by automatically deactivating users when their roles and privileges change in the on-premises directory.
Logging and Reporting
Leverage powerful analytics and reporting by logging the who, what, when, and where of user activity for Workday and any other applications. In addition, dedicated reports audit deprovisioning and provide insight into seat utilization.
Workday and All Your Cloud Applications
Okta is a simple and flexible solution that enables you to securely manage all your web applications regardless of the authentication methods they support or whether they run inside or outside the corporate firewall. Okta requires no up-front investments in hardware, software, or development time. A consumer-like experience for users and simple but robust directory and application integrations for administrators enable Okta to deliver SSO, user management, and analytics for Workday and all your organization’s web applications in minutes rather than months. With Okta, your cloud is covered.
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