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It’s infrastructure for SaaS apps to easily connect to all the different systems used in the enterprise, including Okta, OneLogin, ActiveDirectory, Workday, etc.

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Probably a dumb question, everything in my sphere is active directory - why would you have more than one identity provider?

If you’re a developer building an app, your customers use a variety of different systems. These are fragmented and you need to support all of them, not just Active Directory.

The previous post said "the enterprise" which makes me think of a singular organisation using all of them - maybe I'm misunderstanding, but why would a single org use more than one?

"The enterprise" is jargon for "the enterprise market."

It's rare that a company will use multiple identity systems, but there exists lots of fragmentation across the large companies, which makes building a universal solution into your app very time consuming.

Workday: HR system of record, source of truth on which accounts should be provisioned and deprovisioned in AD.

Active Directory: holds those accounts.

Okta/OneLogin: facilitates use of AD accounts to log in to webapps.

Ah thanks, I thought he meant they were all being used as identity providers - this makes more sense

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