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I'm actually flabbergasted that this has been an item on Xero's agenda since 2013, and here we are in 2022 and you are telling us its a few years to achieve Dana. Quite unbelievable to be honest.

You do not need further input on how this will help us better manage our accounts. I am quite sure your CTO understands very clearly why supporting Azure SSO/SAML integration leads to better client security, he was, after all, CTO of Microsoft New Zealand.

So it has been 9 years, when are you likely to put this critical security feature in place? I would have thought 9 years was a few years. I cannot believe it hasn't been done already. This will make or break our decision in moving to the platform fully.
In our current world of cybersecurity threats, you do not take this seriously enough. Look at Optus, Medibank, Clinical Labs and so on and so on!

This is the only SaaS product in use by our business that doesn't support SAML authentication. We have even added it to our own offering and I'm quite sure our resources are a lot less than yours!
You don't even have to choose a specific IDP such as Azure. The vast majority would be covered once you support SAML.

Unbelievable that this suggestion was made in 2013 and no progress has been made. This is close to essential in providing security through a single point of truth for user account management, not to mention any conditional access rules implemented within the Azure tenancy.

This should be your number one priority and shouldn't take long to implement, especially with a development team of the size we presume you have as a multinational company. It's just an Azure Enterprise application that you should be able to put together in a couple of months at the outside, not years. I will be suggesting to our finance department that they look at different software.

Dana, Azure SSO integration (and integration with all external identity providers for that matter) should be relatively easy to implement with the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). We're not asking Xero to re invent the wheel here, most software as a service companies have had this functionality for several years at least by now. It's a little concerning that a financial software company with a large market share in AU/ NZ and beyond considers this matter a long running journey. I suggest that this should be prioritized or Xero will risk losing customers to other providers who prioritize their customers security.

It should not be 'a few years to achieve', this is a security hole and needs to be prioritized.

Xero is in our security exception register. This isn't a nice place to be.

A must have

great idea

Essential

This is critical to our ongoing use of Xero as our IT ecosystem require this level of security as a minimum. AS others have already said - long overdue.

Esssential to align with the security posture of out IT ecosystem.

Personally I can't believe after 9 years this isn't done. This is mainstream and common, not to mention a 101 style control for identity protection. To me and only just confirming this, this is essentially the point I stop recommending Xero to SMB clients. I focus on cyber security and if they can't adequately protect one of the most important data stores for SMB, then it no longer a viable solution. Also, laughable if I'm honest!

I suspect this only has 16 votes because people don't find the feature request page/move to alternative products when they find it doesn't support it. No wonder Xero is used by business that aren't in the SMB or micro business sectors!

This feature is overdue.. Xero/WorkflowMax integration with Microsoft Azure AD is a critical (and a now very common) security control feature. Please help your customers protect their Xero/WorkflowMax access and enable a secure and seamless login experience with Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication support.

Agreed SSO is critical to us now and xero is the only product that now sits outside it.

Please develop so we can sure access to this system with our workflow automation. Stopping terminated people from access once they leave is a must.

single sign on for Azure AD is essential to allow simpler management of credentials

This idea is on here three times - search for SSO.

Xero was just born in the cloud but never grown up. The only cloud thing about it is that is web based. Small businesses need something better than Xero and QB.