Conquering User Provisioning with Okta Workflows
I just got back from Okta's SKO this week and one of the major technical focuses was on the new Okta Workflows engine which is currently in EAP (early adopters program). Workflows is a new component of the Okta Advanced Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM) offering that enables organizations to perform complex logic triggered by joiner, mover and leaver events such as the creation of a new user, an employee transferring a different department, a user being added to a group or being terminate in an HR system. There are many more events than this but this gives you a flavor. When these events are triggered, Okta workflow can perform any number of actions such as sending an email, assigning a personal folder in a file management solution like Box or SharePoint (among others), and assigning the user to a Slack channel. Okta workflows follows an event-based model: "When this happens" -> "If this" -> "Do This" -> "Do That" ...