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Connect multiple apps with one username, one password, and one session

The Challenge

A pain in the portal

Portals are designed with an ambitious goal: to stitch together applications and data from disparate sources so that it all functions as a single “super app.” But portals often fail because they don’t solve for the underlying identity problems.

Users have to register separately for each section of the portal and remember login credentials for each section. On the backend, admins end up with disconnected user stores, proliferating attributes, and conflicting data. Plus, the potentially huge number of accounts and credentials exposes your portal to risk of password theft or account compromise. It's a huge investment of time and resources from developers for remarkably low UX payoff.

Okta bridges the identity gaps, so your portals can work the way they're designed to work.

The Solution

Okta Platform

Single Sign-On

If your product connects several apps together but requires people to authenticate every time they jump into a new section, you're losing major UX points. With Okta, users can click once to sign in to everything.

Features

  • Link any set of applications with one username, one password, and one session
  • Deploy prebuilt integrations into apps like Salesforce, Zendesk, Netsuite, and Box
  • Rely on Okta for testing and maintenance of your connectors, and get the certainty that they're always up to date

Provisioning

With Okta, you can automatically create user accounts for on-prem and cloud services, and then revoke access when an account is canceled. Implement Okta's connectors or write your own to build cross-application experiences that are more secure, more intuitive, and more delightful.

Features

  • Push attributes from any user store into external services for automated provisioning
  • Read and write user profile information from any application, such as Salesforce, Box, or Sharepoint
  • Read and write attributes from multiple databases, or write to multiple AD and LDAP stores
  • Deploy Okta's on-prem connector to provision applications behind the firewall

Universal Directory

User identities live in a lot of different places. With Okta's Universal Directory, you can create a centralized view of all your users, wherever they're mastered. It'll make access management more straightforward and secure and give users a consistent experience across your products.

Features

  • Build a single repository for user identity information
  • Store profiles, manage passwords, and apply access policies
  • Create a consistent UX across every part of your app

Inbound Federation

Federating an organization into your app is tough. With Okta, it's easy. Think of us as your ambassadors. Okta's platform connects you to any number of federated identity providers—then negotiates implementations and manages trust.

Features

  • Rapidly onboard partners and customers to your application, with no extra work for your team
  • Make it easy for partners to manage access to your applications locally, according to their own policies and processes
  • Secure your connections with standards-based federation
  • Do it all at scale

We provide an array of services to over one million members through our website, Rotary.org. We're looking to make the access to these applications as simple and as easy as possible. Okta simplifies the experience significantly.

– Peter Markos, CIO, Rotary International

Rotary International

Rotary International used Okta to secure a digital portal for millions of members around the world.

See how they did it