Custom App Integration

Okta is an enterprise-wide IAM platform. To support hybrid IT, and to manage access to every application or resource in the enterprise, Okta provides a number of approaches for custom application integration.

Read about how Okta can integrate for single sign-on to modern custom apps, legacy custom apps, on-prem packaged software and mobile apps. And, learn how Okta can provision and deprovision users to nearly any system with a provisioning SDK and support for SCIM.

Introduction

Enterprises and large public institutions have deeply integrated application architectures with legacy IAM systems. They have a gamut of vendors, products, solutions, gateways and components that service legacy architectures and use cases. As use cases need to change, it's very hard to change the underlying stack. There is too much built-in logic and solution engineering. They are challenged with the need for greater agility and introducing the right architecture for the future while managing the transition of the legacy architectural approaches.

Legacy packaged software required heavy customization to deploy. Then, it would require a massive amount of re-engineering to do upgrades or maintenance. The world is moving to cloud platforms that are always up to date, never requiring forklift upgrades. These cloud platforms have considerable out-of-the box capabilities. However, the need for customization does not just go away. Cloud platforms need to integrate with every system in the enterprise, including packaged on-prem software as well as fully custom applications.

Okta Identity Cloud – Always On Foundation for IAM Integration

Okta is the leading IDaaS (i.e. IAM cloud service) today, and is delivered entirely as a multi-tenant cloud service. All Okta capability across Access Management (e.g. SSO, MFA, adaptive authentication, API security) and Lifecycle Management (e.g. provisioning, lifecycle orchestration, governance reporting) is delivered out of the box as a cloud service. Okta maintains the service on the customer’s behalf, delivering extremely high reliability and uptime as well as maintaining world-class security of the service (e.g. 3rd party PEN test