How access gets scattered
Nobody decides to end up with fifteen separate logins. It accumulates.
A line-of-business application gets bought and set up with its own usernames. A vendor portal issues accounts directly. The accounting system predates everyone currently working there. Someone's laptop is still on a local account because joining it to the domain was going to be a project.
Each one made sense on the day. Together they mean there is no single answer to a question you should be able to answer instantly: what does this person have access to?
And a harder one: when someone leaves, what actually gets turned off?
Offboarding is where it shows up
When an employee leaves, someone disables their Microsoft 365 account. That part is usually handled.
The vendor portal isn't. The accounting login shared with two other people isn't. The application that was set up with its own credentials three years ago isn't, because the person who set it up also left.
None of this is negligence. There's no list, so there's no way to work through it.
Scattered identity also means scattered evidence. When something does go wrong, reconstructing what happened means pulling logs from six systems that don't share a format, don't share a clock, and mostly don't keep history for long.
what consolidation actually means
We work in one direction deliberately: move access into Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) until it's the single place identity is managed.
In practice that means:
Applications behind single sign-on. Anything that supports SAML or OIDC — most business software does now — stops having its own username and password and starts trusting Entra instead. Access is granted and revoked in one place.
Device login through Entra. Laptops join Entra ID rather than running local accounts, so the login to the machine is the same identity as the login to email. Lost laptop, departing employee, compromised account — one action covers all of it.
Group-based access instead of individual grants. Access follows a role rather than being handed out person by person. New hire joins a group and has what they need. Someone changes role and their access changes with it.
Conditional access that reflects how you actually work. Rules about where and from what people can sign in, applied once, centrally, rather than per-application settings nobody audits.
What's left over gets documented. Some things won't move — an old system with no SSO support, a vendor that only issues local accounts. Those don't disappear. They get written down, so that when someone leaves there's a list to work through instead of a guess.
Fewer doors. All of them watched.
What changes for your team
Most of what we do is invisible to users. The parts that aren't:
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People sign in once and reach their applications without separate passwords — this is the part they notice and like
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Multi-factor prompts become consistent instead of different per system
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Some applications change how they look at sign-in, which is worth telling people about in advance
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A small number of users will need help the first week. Planning for that is part of the work.
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We schedule cutover around your business, not ours. Nothing moves without a rollback path.
How the work is structured
A scheduled project with a defined end date and a fixed fee. Not a retainer, not open-ended, not a subscription you forget you're paying.
We scope it from what's actually there — which usually means starting with an assessment, because the list of systems holding their own credentials is longer than anyone expects.
At the end you get: applications consolidated behind single sign-on, device login through Entra, access organized by group, and a written record of what moved, what didn't, and why.
We take one consolidation project at a time. If we're mid-project when you call, we'll tell you when we can start rather than starting badly.