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SSO (Single Sign-On)

Single sign-on lets users authenticate once with a central identity provider and then access multiple applications without logging in again. For business software it is frequently a procurement requirement, because it lets an IT team revoke access to every system by disabling one account.

The security benefit is centralised control rather than convenience. When an employee leaves, disabling their identity-provider account removes access everywhere at once — instead of hoping every application was included in an offboarding checklist. That single property is why enterprise buyers treat SSO as non-negotiable.

For a SaaS vendor, SSO is usually the feature that unblocks enterprise deals, and it is more involved than it appears. Supporting SAML and OIDC, handling just-in-time user provisioning, mapping identity-provider groups to application roles, and testing against providers that each interpret the specification slightly differently is weeks of work, not days.

Codazz builds this in production — Authentication & SSO.

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Both let a user authenticate with a central identity provider. SAML is older, XML-based, and still dominant in enterprise environments. OIDC is built on OAuth 2.0, uses JSON, and is simpler to implement in modern web and mobile applications. Selling to large enterprises generally means supporting both, because you do not get to choose the buyer's provider.