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Managing app access requests shouldn’t be a constant struggle for IT teams. With more apps and users, requests can quickly pile up, causing delays, security risks, and burnout. Manual approvals, poor visibility, and disjointed workflows only add to the chaos.
According to reports, in 58% of organizations, IT teams spend more than 5 hours per week on repetitive tasks like onboarding, password resets, and provisioning apps.
CloudEagle.ai is here to transform that process. By automating app access requests with advanced AI-powered workflows, the platform reduces the manual workload and enhances the efficiency and speed of approvals.
Let’s explore how CloudEagle.ai streamlines your app access management.
TL;DR
- CloudEagle.ai centralizes app access requests, eliminating the need for scattered emails and tickets, speeding up approvals for IT teams.
- With AI-driven automation, CloudEagle.ai automates access approvals, reducing delays and ensuring the right people get the right access.
- By routing all access requests through IT, CloudEagle.ai prevents unauthorized apps from slipping through, reducing security risks and improving compliance.
- Employees can request access to pre-approved apps through a self-service catalog, freeing up IT’s time and reducing manual intervention.
- CloudEagle.ai automates provisioning and deprovisioning, giving employees immediate access to necessary tools while ensuring access is revoked upon departure.
Understanding the App Access Challenge: What Happens Without Proper Control?
Without proper control over app access, enterprises face several critical challenges:
1. Blindsided by Lack of Visibility
Can you confidently say you know who’s accessing your apps?
Without a centralized system, IT teams are left guessing who has access, what level of access they have, and whether that access is still appropriate. This uncertainty exposes your enterprise to potential breaches. Former employees or contractors may still have access to critical systems, creating hidden vulnerabilities you won’t see until it’s too late.
2. Fragmented Approvals Across Multiple Channels
Currently, employees request apps through email or Slack, and IT assigns licenses manually. This often misses required approvals or scatters them across different channels, making audit documentation challenging. IT teams spend extra time tracking approvals, which causes delays and increases mistakes.
3. The Hidden Costs of Manual Approvals
How many hours does your team waste on endless access requests?
Manual workflows bog down IT, lead to bottlenecks, and risk delayed approvals, frustrating employees and compromising security. Human error is inevitable. And when it happens in access management, it can result in granting unauthorized access or missing critical deactivations.
4. Compliance Gaps That Could Cost You Millions
Ever wondered if your access management practices are truly compliant?
In highly regulated industries, failing to track and review access is a compliance disaster waiting to unfold. Without automated audits and tracking, you risk hefty fines, legal consequences, and irreparable damage to your organization’s reputation.
Key Pain Points for IT Teams: The Burden of Managing Multiple Access Requests
Managing multiple app access requests is a constant challenge for IT teams, for:
1. Shadow IT and Uncontrolled Software Purchases
When there’s no centralized approval process or clear access workflows, employees often purchase or use software independently, bypassing IT’s supervision. This leads to Shadow IT, where unauthorized apps are used within the enterprise.
These unapproved tools bring serious security and compliance risks, such as potential data breaches and regulatory violations. Employees may not be aware of the risks, but these unmanaged apps weaken the enterprise's control over its software environment, creating hidden vulnerabilities.
1. Overwhelming Volume of Requests
Imagine dealing with hundreds (or even thousands) of access requests each month. For IT teams, this constant influx becomes a major drain on time and resources. Each request demands individual attention, slowing down productivity and leaving little room for higher-priority tasks.
2. Delays in Granting Access
IT teams get flooded with access requests and often don’t have the right information to make quick decisions. This causes delays in giving access, which slows down onboarding, frustrates employees, and hurts productivity. Without automation or a clear view of who needs what, even simple approvals can get stuck.
3. Lack of Consistency and Accountability
How can IT ensure every access request is handled in the same way?
Without automation, access approvals can become inconsistent, leading to confusion and even security gaps. IT teams often struggle with ensuring the right person has access at the right time, making it harder to track who’s accessing what and when.
4. Waste of Time and Poor Productivity
Without a centralized access control system, IT teams waste valuable hours dealing with repetitive access issues and manual approvals. Instead of focusing on strategic work like strengthening security or improving system performance, they’re stuck in a cycle of inefficiency. This not only slows down operations but also lowers overall productivity across the organization.
5. Redundant App Purchases and Delayed Access
Without a central approval process, employees may buy or request apps on their own, causing redundant software spend and inconsistent access. IT teams spend too much time reconciling requests across JIRA, ServiceNow, or spreadsheets, while employees wait longer to get the tools they need.
6. Increased Security Risks from Delayed Access Management
Delay in granting or revoking access isn’t just a minor inconvenience; it’s a security risk.
When users are either granted too much access or kept on after they leave the company, your enterprise’s data is at risk. IT teams are often burdened with checking access across multiple systems, and those gaps can lead to unauthorized users slipping through the cracks.
Why CloudEagle.ai is the Ideal Solution for Reducing App Access Requests?
Managing app access requests doesn’t have to be time-consuming. CloudEagle.ai automates the process, making it faster, more secure, and efficient. The platform:
1. Centralizes Access Management
CloudEagle.ai provides a centralized app catalog where employees can submit access requests for approved apps, cutting out the chaos of emails, Slack messages, and tickets. IT teams manage access requests from a single platform, ensuring faster approvals and better control.
Learn how A Gen AI company streamlined SaaS access provisioning with CloudEagle.ai’s self‑service app catalog.
2. Automates Approval Workflows
Say goodbye to manual approvals. CloudEagle.ai automates the entire process, reducing bottlenecks and errors. Requests are approved based on predefined roles, departments, and access needs, speeding up approvals and ensuring the right people get the right access.
3. Eliminates Shadow IT
CloudEagle.ai ensures that all app access requests are routed through IT. No more employees bypassing processes to use unauthorized apps. Centralizing access requests prevents shadow IT and redundant app purchases, saving costs and enhancing security.
4. Offers Agentic AI-powered Chatbot
CloudEagle.ai’s EagleEye is an AI-powered chatbot that helps simplify app access requests. It integrates with platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams to assist IT and security teams in managing requests and approvals efficiently.
EagleEye automates workflows, ensuring quick and accurate access for employees, while reducing delays and manual tracking. This makes the whole app access process faster and more secure, helping IT stay on top of requests without hassle.
5. Streamlines Onboarding and Offboarding
Access management is a key part of both onboarding and offboarding. CloudEagle.ai automates this process, ensuring new employees get the necessary app access immediately, while former employees' access is revoked automatically.
This prevents any delays in access and eliminates the risk of unauthorized access. By automating these steps, CloudEagle.ai makes app access management smoother, more secure, and easier to control.
Know how JoVe transformed employee onboarding and offboarding with CloudEagle.ai.
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6. Supports JIT & ABAC
CloudEagle.ai enhances app access management with Just-In-Time (JIT) access and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). With JIT, users gain access to applications only when needed and for a specific time, reducing unnecessary access.
ABAC ensures permissions are assigned based on attributes like role, department, or location, making access requests more precise and secure. This helps streamline the access approval process, ensuring the right people get access to the right tools at the right time, without over-provisioning or delays.
7. Automates License Management
Unlike traditional IDPs that focus solely on access management, CloudEagle.ai goes a step further by tracking license usage and automatically reassigning or downgrading licenses based on actual usage patterns. This automation helps reduce wasted licenses and ensures organizations are not overspending on unnecessary software.
How CloudEagle.ai Helps IT Teams Reduce App Access Requests Effectively?
CloudEagle.ai is an advanced AI-powered SaaS governance platform that integrates with over 500 SaaS applications. It automates app access request management with the following capabilities:
1. Required Apps Given During Onboarding
One of the biggest time drains for IT teams is manually granting access to apps during the onboarding process. CloudEagle.ai simplifies this by automatically provisioning the required apps based on predefined roles and locations during onboarding.
New employees receive access to the tools they need immediately, eliminating unnecessary requests and speeding up their ramp-up time. IT no longer needs to chase down approvals or spend hours configuring individual app access.
This instant access eliminates the need for multiple requests and approvals, saving hundreds of employee hours and speeding up new hires' ramp-up time.
2. Self-Service App Catalog for Faster Access
With CloudEagle.ai’s self-service app catalog, employees can easily request access to pre-approved applications without needing to involve IT for every request. The catalog is automatically updated, ensuring that only the right apps are available for each role.
IT teams can set specific access controls based on roles, so employees only see the apps they need. This cuts down on access requests, speeds up approvals, and frees up IT to focus on more important tasks.
2. Shadow IT Elimination with a Centralized System
Shadow IT can lead to security risks when employees use unapproved apps. CloudEagle.ai solves this by centralizing app access, ensuring all requests go through IT for approval. This prevents unauthorized apps, reduces security risks, and ensures compliance with company policies.
4. Automated Approvals and Role-Based Access
CloudEagle.ai automates the approval process, eliminating the need for IT to manually review every access request. Role-based access ensures that employees are only granted access to apps relevant to their job functions, reducing unnecessary access requests.
By automating approvals and streamlining workflows, IT can handle access requests more efficiently, without sacrificing security or compliance.
5. Automated Access Reviews
According to CloudEagle.ai’s IGA report, 95% of organizations still conduct manual access reviews. It's time for a change.
CloudEagle.ai takes the pain out of periodic access reviews with its automated access review process. Traditionally, access reviews are time-consuming and prone to delays.
However, CloudEagle.ai automates this process, sending reminders to managers and app owners to review access permissions at set intervals.
Discover how CloudEagle.ai helped Dezerv automate its app access review process, saving time and ensuring compliance.
6. Streamlined Compliance Management
Compliance with regulations like ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR can be challenging for IT teams. CloudEagle.ai simplifies this by automating access reviews and deprovisioning.
It centralizes access management and logs requests, making it easier to generate audit-ready reports. This automation ensures compliance while freeing up IT teams for other important tasks.
To see the impact of CloudEagle.ai, check out this testimonial from Alice Park on how the platform helped Remediant streamline app access management. They saved 1,470 hours annually on onboarding and 1,690 hours on offboarding after implementation.
Conclusion
CloudEagle.ai streamlines the app access request process by automating approvals, improving security, and providing IT teams with real-time visibility.
With its centralized app catalog, role-based visibility, and automated workflows, CloudEagle.ai reduces manual tasks, eliminates shadow IT, and enhances productivity for both employees and IT teams.
Are you ready to simplify your app access management and enhance your IT operations?
Schedule a demo to learn how CloudEagle.ai can transform your SaaS governance.
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