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Ask Slashdot: New Employee System Access Tracking?
New submitter mushero writes: We are a fast-growing IT services company with dozens of systems, SaaS tools, dev tools and systems, and more that a new employee might need access to. We struggle to track this, both in terms of what systems a given set of roles will need and then has it been done, as different people manage various systems. And of course the reverse when an employee leaves. Every on-boarding or HR system we've looked at has zero support for this; they are great at getting tax info, your home address, etc. but not for getting you a computer nor access to a myriad of systems. I know in a perfect world it'd all be single-sign-on, but not realistic yet and we have many, many SaaS service that will never integrate. So what have you used for this, how do you track new employee access across dozens of systems, hundreds of employees, new hires every day, etc.?
I wouldn't use any of that bloated crap. If this really is an IT company that's growing and knows their business, if they were actually competitive, they'd write their own systems. It's not impossible nor usually even difficult to integrate wildly different systems together if you know even a little about what you're doing.
And don't fucking accept it when somebody you're paying says "it can't be done". Countless times I've had consultants and "IT pros" with years of (in)experience say that to me and I've had to show them just how it's done. This is IT we're talking about, pretty much anything you can imagine is possible if you have enough money or need for something. Stop thinking like listed company execs and you'll be fine.