Metabase SCIM guide

Holistics, the self-service business intelligence platform, does not support SCIM provisioning on any plan. While Holistics offers SAML 2.0 SSO integration with major identity providers including Okta and Azure AD, this only handles authentication—users must still be manually created and managed within the Holistics platform. For BI teams that need to rapidly onboard and offboard data analysts and business users across projects, this creates a significant administrative burden that scales poorly with team growth. The gap between SSO authentication and actual user provisioning becomes particularly problematic for data teams managing multiple projects with varying access requirements. Without automated provisioning, IT teams must manually coordinate user creation, role assignments, and deprovisioning across both the identity provider and Holistics platform. This manual process creates compliance risks around orphaned accounts and increases the likelihood of access control errors in environments handling sensitive business data.

8x8 supports SCIM 2.0 for automated user provisioning, but only on their quote-based X Series plans (previously $24-44/user/month range before they moved to custom pricing). While SCIM can create, update, and deactivate users, it has critical gaps that create ongoing manual overhead: license assignment must be done manually after every user is provisioned, users can't be deleted (only deactivated), and provisioned users don't automatically appear in the Company Directory. For IT teams managing a unified communications platform that typically covers all employees, these limitations defeat much of SCIM's purpose. You're still manually touching every user account to assign licenses and ensure directory visibility. The lack of user deletion support also creates compliance headaches when employees leave - accounts accumulate as "deactivated" rather than being properly removed.

Absorb LMS supports native SCIM provisioning, but only on Enterprise plans with SSO as a required paid add-on. Even with SCIM enabled, the implementation has critical limitations: SAML provisioning only creates accounts on first login and never updates existing users, and full user provisioning requires the specific "Absorb 5 - New Learner Experience" version. For organizations managing compliance training across hundreds or thousands of learners, these gaps create ongoing manual work. The SSO-as-add-on model means you're paying extra fees on top of already custom Enterprise pricing ($6-12/user/month base, but varies significantly). For learning management systems handling external partners, contractors, and employees across different access levels, the inability to update existing user attributes through SAML provisioning forces IT teams into manual account management—exactly what automated provisioning should eliminate.