Unofficial OIN

What is the “OIN”?

The Okta Integration network is a network of integrations that Okta maintains for the different service providers (SaaS applications) that Okta connects with and provides setup documentation for.  There are around 8,000 applications in the Okta Integration Network as I write this article.  When a business wants to check if their applications are in the Okta Integration Network they visit https://www.okta.com/integrations/ and search for their applications one by one.

What is the “Unofficial OIN”?

The Unofficial OIN is an “unofficial” version of the Okta Integration Network.  It pulls in all the official applications that Okta maintains and allows businesses to streamline the process of finding their applications in one place by uploading a .CSV or .XLSX file.

There are thousands of applications that are not in the “Official” Okta Integration Network that support SSO (ex. SAML/OIDC) and SCIM Provisioning.  The process for a company to get their application into the Official OIN requires submitting an application to the OIN and a review process that can only move as fast as the Okta team can review it.  There are also thousands of companies that don’t want to go through the Okta review process or don’t know about it and those companies just put the documentation of how to set up SCIM and SSO directly in the docs on their website.

The basic principle I want to get across here is this:

Just because an application is not in the Official Okta Integration Network, does not mean that you can’t connect with it.  It just means that Okta does not provide the setup documentation for the application.  If the service provider provides the documentation on their website, you can set up a custom app integration in Okta and follow that service provider’s documentation.

The Unofficial OIN allows users to submit applications for review that they have found the documentation for that are not a part of the “Official” OIN.  These applications are marked as Unofficial and provide a better experience for companies to search for their applications in one place.

Once reviewed and approved, the application will show in the Unofficial OIN for future users to be able to be able to more seamlessly track down the SSO and SCIM documentation. Please note: You should always consult your service provider to make sure their guidance is up to date.

You can compile your applications in a CSV file or XLSX file and import them into the unofficial OIN and let us do the work of searching for your applications.  If an application name wasn’t a match with one of the ones we have found, you’ll be asked to confirm it.

Once finished, you can export your application list to an XLSX file with all of your applications and their supported feature functionality to share amongst the team.

Go checkout the Unofficial OIN at https://unofficial-oin.iamse.blog/.