Thanks for joining us for this, the third installment of our blog series in which we take a look at some of the great new features offered by Acumatica 5.0. If you missed the first post which gave a brief overview of all the new features or the second one which covered the user interface updates, you can catch up now.
Forgetting passwords, it’s an extremely frustrating daily occurrence for most of us, unless you use some sort of password manager or you’re lucky enough to be using applications that allow for single sign-on. In case you’re not familiar with it, single sign-on allows you to sign into one application and gain access to a variety of other applications that are tied back to it. But, until recently, many of the business applications that companies depend on internally such as enterprise resource planning software or customer relationship management software did not offer this capability. However, this is beginning to change as cloud applications like Acumatica are becoming more and more popular.
With its latest release, Acumatica 5.0 single sign-on gives users the power to sign into their ERP system using either Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Google apps. So, no matter which of these popular systems your business uses, you will be able to sign in once and access all types of applications including the Acumatica ERP platform, saving you valuable time and helping you avoid frustration.
You may be wondering if you sign in with Google or Active Directory how does Acumatica determine what usage rights each individual should have? This information is fed into the system based upon the specific group that a user’s credentials are associated with. For example, if my username were [email protected] and that username were associated with the administrator group within my company’s Active Directory schema, I would automatically be given administrative privileges when I log into Acumatica.
Alleviating frustration and streamlining the login process is not the only thing that Acumatica 5.0 single sign-on allows you to do. It also allows for information to be shared between applications, so that you can locate important information easily without having to log out of one application and into another. For example, if you’re using Acumatica 5.0 single sign-on with Active Directory, Acumatica can also pull information from your organization’s SharePoint or CRM systems. That way, you can navigate to important files or CRM cases assigned to you without ever leaving Acumatica.
As you can see, Acumatica 5.0 single sign-on capability allows you to be more productive by spending less time jumping between applications or trying to remember or reset forgotten passwords.
See Acumatica 5.0 single sign-on in action
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And, stay tuned for the next post in this series where we will take a look at the fulltext search engine capabilities offered by Acumatica 5.0.
