A request we often get from clients is whether SAP SuccessFactors can be a hub for employees to access other Human Resources Systems. The good news is that this capability is now supported. For many clients, SAP SuccessFactors will be one of the most widely used application suites, and having the capability to use it as a hub for linking to other applications will improve the adoption and benefits that you can derive from SAP SuccessFactors product suite.
Okta has a SuccessFactors app already defined that makes it very easy to setup SSO with SuccessFactors when using Okta as the Identify Provider.
For more details on the setup, you can also reference my Okta SSO Blog. You ca also access my other 3DR blogs from this link.
In SAP SuccessFactors, Single Sign On (SSO) provides a secure and seamless method for a user to access the system without having to enter their credentials. The SSO methods supported by SAP SuccessFactors fall into two main groups. The first is token based SSO and the second is Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). SAML is based on a pre-defined standard for exchanging authentication information between systems. If your company is already using SAML for SSO with other applications, then that’s what you should use for SAP SuccessFactors as well.
In my last blog on the platform series for SAP SuccessFactors, I covered Single Sign On (SSO) capabilities. In this blog I’ll cover the actual setup of SSO using the SAML option with Okta as the Identity Provider. If you are not familiar with Okta, they are the leading provider of Identity and Access Management as a Service.
