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Enterprise

Bridging the SSO-IT Management Gap in SaaS

In the expansive landscape of Software as a Service (SaaS), the ease and accessibility of SaaS has unlocked new levels of operational agility for modern enterprises. Gartner predicts that the SaaS market will reach $232.3 billion by 2024, making it one of the fastest-growing areas in the IT industry.

As organizations have embraced SaaS applications, Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions have emerged as a linchpin in managing and facilitating seamless user authentication. However, this solution has inadvertently led to a new challenge: a bottleneck at the IT Service Desk due to a lack of comprehensive management tools for these numerous SaaS applications.

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Enterprise

From Active Directory to Public Cloud: Extending OUs and GPOs for Seamless IT Administration

The evolution of Microsoft’s Identity and Access Management strategies has been a fascinating journey to watch. From the on-premise days of Active Directory with Organizational Units (“OUs”) and Group Policy Objects (“GPOs”), we’ve moved into the era of Pubic Cloud with Microsoft 365 and Administrative Units (“AUs”). However, not all organizations are ready to leave behind the familiar structure of OUs and GPOs. In this blog, we’ll delve into this subject and explore how Nuvolex and the ManageX platform allows the extension of OUs and GPOs to SaaS applications like Microsoft 365 and beyond.

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Enterprise

The Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Enterprise IT: Striking a Balance Between Control and Collaboration

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, enterprises are constantly seeking ways to optimize their operations and drive greater efficiency. One approach that has gained traction is outsourcing Enterprise IT to third-party Managed Service Providers. The theory behind this approach is the ability to leverage the expertise and abundant resources of these IT partners so that organizations can focus on the company’s core competencies. Beyond that, the thinking is that Enterprises will see benefit in terms of overall cost savings, the built in infrastructure scalability of the partner and access to cutting-edge technologies that these Managed Service Providers have access to and leverage across their customer base. However, the decision to outsource IT is not without its complexities. In this blog, we’ll explore the Pros and Cons of outsourcing Enterprise IT and discuss the importance of maintaining control, access and visibility while exploring a more collaborative model like a Shared Services approach.

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MSP

Multitenant Access Best Practices

One of the major pain points we initially wanted to address was ensuring that L1 Service Desk staff not only had easy access to customer tenants, but also access them in a much more efficient and secure manner, ensuring that all IT administrator access was properly delegated and auditable.

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Protecting from Insider Threats

For most organizations, the expectation is that IT professionals conduct themselves in a professional manner and prioritize the protection of company and/or customer data above all else. Unfortunately, malicious activity within any IT organization is much harder to prevent and control compared to external threats.

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