07/17/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 07/17/2024 11:11
We're excited to announce that Inbound SCIM for Okta Customer Identity Cloud, is now Generally Available. This release marks the culmination of years of research and insights into how to build a vendor-neutral inbound System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) solution that enables B2B SaaS customers to solve real-world user provisioning and de-provisioning problems.
SCIMis aprotocolandschemaused to provision, de-provision, and manage SaaS user accounts in a standardized way. SaaS application providers face increasing pressure to implement standards like SCIM because of the increasing amount of user data modern enterprise organizations store in SaaS.
If you're a SaaS developer selling to large enterprises, your customers may have already asked you to implement SCIM endpoints that can integrate with the Workforce Identity providers and SaaS user management tooling they use. To address this need, Okta Customer Identity Cloudprovides an inbound SCIM service that eliminates the need for your business to build and self-host SCIM endpoints.
SCIM provides numerous benefits to SaaS developers and their customers.
We tailored the initial release of Customer Identity Cloud inbound SCIM forB2B SaaS application developerswho need to integrate with enterprise Identity providersthat use SCIM 2.0 to manage user accounts in SaaS applications.
This includes integrations with Okta Workforce Identity Cloud, Microsoft Entra ID, and others. These enterprise Identity providers use SAML or OpenID Connect for user authentication, in addition to supporting SCIM for user management. Auth0 supports inbound SCIM for these connection types:
This release also includes features that allow B2B SaaS developers to offer SCIM-based user provisioning to their enterprise customers in a secure, flexible, and broadly compatible manner.
Since SCIM is a standard protocol for user management, you're not limited to integrating with specific enterprise Identity providers. You're free to use your own tooling and build custom solutions that read and write user data to Okta Customer Identity Cloud's SCIM endpoints.
"It was fairly straightforward. It all made sense from the get-go." - J. Tonee, INX Software
"The integration in terms of setting it up was excellent. The ways the console immediately presents the credentials … it's super intuitive to find the information." - J. Fox, OnFrontiers
Inbound SCIM is part of SaaS Enterprise, B2B Professional, and B2B Essentials SKUs and is available globally for new and existing Customer Identity Cloud customers. What's more, inbound SCIM is available free of charge to all customers using Okta Workforce Identity Cloud connections.
Developers can follow our configuration guide to see SCIM working in a matter of minutes. You can discover more by reading our inbound SCIM documentation here:
Want to launch a B2B SaaS application quickly? Check out our newest SaaS reference application, SaaStart,to learn by example how Auth0 by Okta can help you onboard business customers and let them manage themselves. You can also gain hands-on experience on Inbound SCIM and other essential CIAM features. Learn about CIAM within the frame of a modern B2B SaaS application. You can quickly deploy a sample Auth0 template directly within the SaaStart repoor from our new integrationin the Vercel marketplace.