Stitchflow
State of Automation 2026

The 98% SCIM gap

We analyzed 552 SaaS applications to answer one question:
Is manual provisioning your fault, or the vendor's?

The data nobody wants to publish

Every IdP vendor promises the same thing: "Connect your apps. Automate provisioning. Secure your organization."

Then you try to automate your actual stack. The reality? Out of 552 applications analyzed, only 11 offer native SCIM without an Enterprise upgrade.

The 2.0% club (Open SCIM)

AWS IAM Identity Center
Fivetran
15Five

SCIM availability across 552 apps

No SCIM Support55% (306 apps)

Manual management required. No automation possible natively.

SCIM Paywalled43% (235 apps)

Locked behind "Enterprise" pricing (2-3x markup).

Open SCIM2.0% (11 apps)

Available on standard plans.

The gap by department

Not all teams suffer equally. Finance and Marketing tools are the worst offenders, leaving huge gaps in offboarding security.

Finance

9 apps
89%No SCIM

Marketing

16 apps
81%No SCIM

Password Managers

138 apps
75%No SCIM

Sales / CRM

29 apps
72%No SCIM

HR / Payroll

94 apps
71%No SCIM

Developer Tools

10 apps
60%No SCIM
The business model

Why is automatic provisioning so rare?

SCIM is not technically difficult. The protocol has existed since 2011. Vendors don't withhold it because they can't build it—they withhold it because it's profitable.

The upsell trap

Vendors use SCIM as a "feature gate" to force mid-market companies into Enterprise contracts. It's often bundled with audit logs and SSO, justifying a 200-300% price increase.

The "free tier" funnel

Mass-market tools land cheap with free tiers to get adoption. Once usage spreads, IT needs to manage it. That's when the "Enterprise Tax" hits.

Save $12k per app / year

Stop paying the enterprise tax.

You don't need to upgrade to Enterprise to get automation. Stitchflow connects your IdP (Okta or Entra) to the "unsupported" 98% of apps, giving you SCIM-like provisioning on the plan you're already on.

Automate your stack

The cost of manual management

  • 1

    7 orphaned accounts

    Average per app. Ex-employees retaining access.

  • 2

    12 unused licenses

    Paying for seats nobody uses because offboarding failed.

  • 3

    101 IT hours

    Wasted annually per app on manual tickets.

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