SSO Is Not a Flip Switch

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When we started modernizing the LMS infrastructure, the first thing someone asked was: "Can we just add SSO to the LMS?"

It's a reasonable question. It sounds like a small ask — flip a switch, wire up a login button, done. But the moment you start pulling on that thread, you find out it's not a switch at all. It's a decision about where identity lives across every system you own, and getting it wrong means you end up with the same mess you started with, just with a single sign-on button in front of it.

The $300K Spreadsheet: How Manual Provisioning Became a Liability

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Last year I got pulled into a project where the team was drowning in spreadsheets. Not the good kind, but rather the unfortunate kind: manual user provisioning lists, copy-paste operations between systems, and a recurring cloud bill that kept climbing because of over-provisioned resources sitting idle.

The kicker? Along with all the manual inefficiences, we incurred $300,000/year in overprovisioned cloud spend. And that was before we even talked about the staff time or the risk of things breaking when a step in the process was missed.

Enterprise-Integration on Robert Terakedis

SSO Is Not a Flip Switch

The $300K Spreadsheet: How Manual Provisioning Became a Liability