TLDR 2024-08-05

If you have ambitions to sell software to enterprise customers, single sign-on and SCIM provisioning are likely non-negotiable features you must support. These are important for security, user lifecycle management, and access control. Here are 3 technical guides from WorkOS:

• A guide to organization modeling — How your app handles users, teams, and the relationships between the two — is an important but often overlooked part of building authentication and authorization into your app.
• The developer's guide to SSO — A deep dive into the SAML authentication flow, XML nuances, and why rolling your own SSO is so challenging.
• Unlocking the power of SCIM: streamlining enterprise user management— Besides secure user deprovisioning, SCIM can unlock additional use cases such as pre-provisioning, automated access management, and more.

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