Introducing the "SSO Automation Scorecard"
TL;DR - we built a tool that reveals who charges extra for SSO and see exactly what you can automate in 200+ popular applications. Check it out here.
Why Are We Still Doing Manual IT Tasks in 2025?
In a world obsessed with automation, it’s shocking how many IT tasks remain stuck in the Dark Ages. Onboarding, offboarding, access management—these are repetitive, predictable chores that should practically automate themselves. Yet here we are, wrestling with spreadsheets and manual checklists, all thanks to overly complex integration “standards” and a dash of vendor trickery.
“How Much Can I Automate?”
Plenty of identity vendors love to brag about one-click integration and effortless automation. Then you pop the hood and discover layers of complexity that can only be navigated by costly consultants or armies of in-house developers. If you’re an IT pro who wants to replace manual drudgery with real automation, you deserve technology that meets you halfway—but that’s not what most vendors deliver.
The SaaS Integration Nightmare
A huge part of the problem is how SaaS apps approach integrations. Instead of giving us simple, direct APIs for day-to-day needs like provisioning and de-provisioning, they insist on using SAML or SCIM for everything. Sure, those standards have their place, but for basic tasks, they’re often overkill—expensive to implement, hard to maintain, and a giant headache for everyone involved.
A Plea to SaaS Developers: Think of the Implementors
The solution is simple: create a straightforward API.
We don’t need a sprawling, standards-heavy blueprint just to add or remove a user. Give us a straightforward API for these three core functions:
- List Users: So we can see at a glance who’s got access.
- Add User Programmatically: Let us automate provisioning—no more spreadsheets.
- Remove User Programmatically: Because nobody wants to keep paying for unused licenses.
That’s it. With these basic functionalities, we can significantly improve the lives of IT professionals and enable them to automate critical tasks.
The “IT Automation Scorecard”
To help IT teams make informed decisions, we created the SSO Automation Scorecard. It’ll show you who charges extra for SSO and what you can automate in 200+ popular applications. For example:
- SAML Support: Yes/No
- SCIM Support: Yes/No
- List Users: Yes/No
- Add User: Yes/No
- Remove User: Yes/No
- Cost of Automation: Is it free, included, or behind a paywall?
This scorecard would give IT teams the cold, hard truth about a product’s automation capabilities before they sign any contracts.
Conclusion
It’s 2025, and it is unacceptable that basic IT tasks remain manual and time-consuming. At YeshID, we’ll connect with any existing API endpoint your SaaS provider offers—just give us a list-users URL, and we’re off to the races. If your SaaS app can write or delete users via an endpoint, we integrate with that, too.
But we can’t do it alone. We need SaaS providers to step up and provide those basic APIs. They don’t have to follow a massive standard—they just need to exist, and they need to be free. So come on, developers: let’s finally ditch the spreadsheet-driven workflow and make real automation happen.
