Officially, Variux published the Okta SSO feature for Acumatica ERP
Today, Variux officially publishes Okta SSO for Acumatica right on the Acumatica Marketplace. This is one of our integrated solutions to extend Acumatica to meet your unique business needs, here specifically the Single Sign-On authentication method.
To enhance your enterprise security and simplify the sign-in process for your personnel, we implemented the Single Sign-On (SSO) extension for the Acumatica Cloud-ERP Platform. By enabling our Acumatica SSO plugin, users can sign in (no need to sign-up) and access your Acumatica system through a reputed security provider used for authentication, which is Okta. Especially with Okta SSO for Acumatica by Variux, only users on your list can access the system!
Why did we come up with this feature?
As eCommerce and ERP experts, we are well aware of business concerns about security. Especially in the current era, after the Covid-19 pandemic, most B2B businesses are learning how to digitally transform and do this as quickly as possible. And cloud-based platform is one of the strongest growth trends because of providing fast service and responsive accessibility anytime, anywhere with the internet. These are positive signs after a long time that most American manufacturers still lag 10 to 15 years behind other industries when it comes to digital adoption. Yet we know that 89% of manufacturers have already implemented or are currently implementing an online sales channel. This is a good sign for the manufacturing industry.
On the other hand, cybercriminals are getting smarter and exploiting gaps in security protocols, making it increasingly difficult for enterprises to stay one step ahead of attacks and enforce active mitigation.
In addition, due to the digital transformation process, employees are exposed to many times more applications and software than the traditional way of operation. This also means employees have to remember more sets of credentials than ever before. Entering usernames and passwords manually in every application is time-consuming and inefficient. When trying to remember multiple passwords, business users may forget their credentials to log in.
Therefore, we recommend Single Sign-On (SSO) as one of the best and simplest practices to help mitigate common risks while satisfying usability for employees.
“With our extension, you can easily enable SSO for Acumatica ERP with not too much effort.”
Key features description
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For employess
Okta SSO for Acumatica workflow
With our extension, Okta is integrated with Acumatica ERP as an IdP that provides SSO to external applications. Okta also supports MFA prompts to improve your ERP security.
To describe how the Okta SSO for Acumatica work concisely:
1. The user requests access to your Acumatica ERP.
2. Acumatica ERP delegates the user authentication and redirects the user to Okta for authentication. The application requests a token from Okta SSO for Acumatica to establish the user session.
3. Acting as the IdP, our Okta SSO for Acumatica uses Multifactor Authentication (MFA) and SSO credentials to authenticate the user. Okta verifies the user, and if successful, prompts the user to grant access to the application.
4. If the user grants access, our Okta SSO for Acumatica generates an ID token containing the user identity information the application can access.
5. Okta SSO for Acumatica returns the authenticated user to the application.
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