Managing multiple business applications from a single dashboard: people, departments and access in one place

Organizations usually buy software one piece at a time, as the need arises: email first, then file sharing, then a chat tool for the website. Before long, each one has its own user list, its own permission screen and its own invoice.

The hidden cost of managing things separately

• A new employee gets set up separately in each system; one gets forgotten.
• A department change has to be updated by hand in every system.
• A departing employee's access stays open in one system.
• There's no single answer to who has access to what.
• Usage and invoices are tracked on separate screens.

How does management work in a single dashboard?

1. A person is added once. The employee is invited and sets their own password.
2. A department is defined once. File-area and shared-mailbox permissions across applications are granted through the department.
3. Product access is granted from one place. Which application a person can use opens up on a single screen.
4. A departing person is removed in one action. Their access closes across every application at once.

A single dashboard doesn't mean a single database

Even though management sits in one place, each application's data should stay separate. In a sound structure, each organization's data is kept in its own separate database for each application; a problem in one application doesn't reach into another's data.