
The SCIM vs. SSO Tax: Why IT gets uniquely screwed by vendor strategy
The SSO Tax affects login convenience - users complain, and vendors respond. The SCIM Tax affects security, but only IT feels the pain. Vendors exploit this asymmetry.

The SSO Tax affects login convenience - users complain, and vendors respond. The SCIM Tax affects security, but only IT feels the pain. Vendors exploit this asymmetry.

Unified SaaS management is no longer optional. Stitchflow gives IT full visibility, automated remediation, and continuous compliance across all apps—helping organizations stay secure, efficient, and cost-effective.

Learn how to extend Okta FastPass-style passwordless access to legacy and disconnected apps—without waiting for SAML, OIDC, or SCIM.

IT visibility gaps impact security, costs, and efficiency. Learn how to identify and eliminate them with actionable steps for 2025.

Most apps support SCIM, but lock it behind enterprise plans. Here's how to automate SCIM provisioning without the enterprise plan, and finally avoid the SCIM Tax.

The hidden costs of building your own SCIM bridge for apps that don't support it: 40+ days to build, endless maintenance, 2 AM incidents. Why buying beats building.

60% of orgs can't fill IAM roles, yet teams waste time on manual provisioning. IAM automation handles disconnected apps without human intervention.

Atlassian user management is often costly and complex. Stitchflow automates provisioning, access, and renewals—saving time, reducing risk, and cutting costs by up to 75%.

Okta works. What doesn't disappear is the manual work. We analyzed 12 Okta customers and found 422 identity and access gaps per organization on average.

Extend Okta deprovisioning to every SaaS app with Stitchflow. Automate offboarding for disconnected tools that lack SSO or SCIM integration.

Explore the common challenges of non-SCIM apps deprovisioning in Okta, and learn how to eliminate orphaned accounts, license waste, and compliance risks.

Identity automation breaks for 30% of apps; here's how to close the Identity Automation Gap.

98.8% of SaaS apps block automated provisioning - either through enterprise paywalls or by never building it. We built Stitchflow to fix it.

Struggling with manual deprovisioning? Learn how to automate disconnected apps that don't have SCIM or APIs and close your identity automation gap.

Learn how IT teams can reduce tool sprawl by unifying data from core systems like Okta, Active Directory, and Slack with all SaaS apps into a single, real-time IT graph.

This report quantifies the true cost of manual SaaS provisioning based on real operational data from 500 app deployments - $12K per app per year in hidden costs.

98.8% of apps block your IdP's automation - either through SCIM Tax paywalls or by never building SCIM. Stitchflow unlocks SCIM for any app at less than $5K per app per year.

Explore the limitations of IT workflow automation and how better visibility can drive greater automation success

Use this IT audit readiness assessment to identify 15 critical SaaS governance gaps. Evaluate your compliance posture before auditors find the problems.

A lack of visibility in IT creates costly gaps in access, compliance, and security. Discover the causes, impacts, and solutions to regain control.

A practical guide for IT leaders to translate SCIM automation into CFO-friendly ROI language - with cost formulas, industry benchmarks, and a ready-to-use proposal template.

101 hours per app per year on manual provisioning. That's 2.5 weeks of full-time work per app. You're not paying for an IT team - you're paying for a human API.

Traditional RPA comes with hidden costs: maintaining scripts forever. Stitchflow is a managed service with 99.5% uptime SLA and 24/7 human-in-the-loop. If it breaks, it's our job to fix it.

Stitchflow’s IT Assessment identifies and remediates gaps in access, compliance, and licenses with automation, saving IT teams time and effort.

Not the license fees - just the cleanup because you didn't pay for automation. We analyzed 500 app deployments and found manual SaaS management costs $12K per app per year.

Learn how to discover and govern unmanaged SaaS applications that bypass your identity provider, compromise security, and waste IT budgets.

The SCIM Tax is vendor-driven ransomware economics. This blog explains how Stitchflow eliminates the SCIM Tax entirely with automation.

Most contractor identity management is manual and broken. See why 40% of your workforce creates hidden security risks and how to fix it.

Introducing Stitchflow: The customizable SaaS management platform. Get real-time visibility, optimize licenses, and ensure compliance—built for modern IT teams.

Some apps hemorrhage licenses. Some devour IT hours. Some generate compliance findings every quarter. We analyzed 500 app deployments to find the worst offenders.

Most IT tools weren’t built for cross-platform insight. They leave blind spots, wasted spend, and compliance risks. Here’s why they fall short—and how modern SaaS management platforms like Stitchflow close the gaps.

Every major AI coding tool paywalls SCIM behind Enterprise pricing. For tools that see your source code, manual provisioning creates security gaps IT can't afford.

Most tools ignore the messy 30% of apps without SCIM. Learn how to automate provisioning for non-SCIM apps and eliminate risky manual workflows with Stitchflow.

The same regulations that protect your business created permission structures that now take hours to configure. SOX, HIPAA, and GDPR drove the complexity in SAP, Epic, and Oracle.

DevOps tools hold source code and deployment secrets but have the most inconsistent SCIM support. GitHub paywalls it, GitLab includes it, half the category has nothing.

The apps that run your business are the hardest to provision. SAP takes 2-4 hours per user. Epic requires certification training. We rank the 10 most painful apps.

Google Workspace users are often locked out of SCIM entirely. Learn how to automate provisioning via API webhooks without needing an expensive IdP upgrade.

IT's holiday work isn't emergencies - it's the backlog from manual provisioning. Access cleanups, license audits, offboarding stragglers that pile up all year.

SSO handles authentication. It doesn't handle provisioning. 98.8% of apps either lack SCIM or paywall it, forcing manual account management despite Okta deployment.

Not one of the Big Four PM tools offers SCIM on standard plans. All require Enterprise upgrades or force 458 IT hours/year in manual provisioning across Monday, Asana, Notion, and ClickUp.

Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, ZoomInfo, Outreach - every major sales vendor paywalls SCIM. 25-35% annual sales turnover makes manual deprovisioning the biggest security risk.

Step-by-step walkthroughs of provisioning users in SAP, Epic, and Viewpoint Vista - three of the most complex enterprise systems. Every debug cycle, escalation, and authorization object.

Walk into a budget meeting saying "we need SCIM for security" and you'll walk out without approval. Reframe it as a cost reduction with 5-10x ROI instead.

A deep dive into the state of SaaS identity: out of 721 apps analyzed, 98.8% require an enterprise upgrade or manual work for user provisioning.

We analyzed pricing for major SaaS apps. The SCIM Tax—the premium for automation—exceeds $700k/year for a mid-market company. See the worst offenders.

A direct comparison of three approaches to the SCIM gap: Aquera's connector toolkit, Cerby's access hub, and Stitchflow's managed outcome model. When does each make sense?

57% of SaaS apps have no SCIM. The list includes household names like QuickBooks, Gusto, and Mailchimp - not just obscure legacy tools.

The reality of manual provisioning: 15 tabs, 47 permission screens, and 2 hours per hire. Why the most critical business apps are the hardest to manage.

PLG tools like Figma, Notion, and Slack were designed for end users, not IT admins. By the time enterprises arrived, the architecture was locked. Now SCIM is either paywalled or nonexistent.