Seamless Identity Integration for an Independent High School in Australia
Industry:
Education
Region:
Australia
Technology:
Azure AD
About the Client
An independent high school in Australia needed to streamline its identity management by integrating SaaS applications, Sentral and Elmo, with its existing on-premise Active Directory and Azure Entra.
Challenges
- Integrating SaaS applications—Sentral and Elmo
- Data synchronization between Sentral, Elmo, on-prem Active Directory, and Azure Entra
- Consistency of user attributes and access rights across on-premise and cloud environments
- User profiles should have access to both internal and external applications
Solutions
- Used Sentral API and Elmo API for profile updates to on-premises AD
- Established bi-directional synchronization between on-premises Active Directory and Azure Entra
Results
- Staff and students could easily access both internal and external applications
- Sentral and Elmo authorizations were easily applied on user profiles
- Real-time identity synchronization across on-prem and cloud environments
- Improved administrative efficiency through single centralized identity management