How To

Establish Zoho People to Okta Directory Integration

Use Cases

In 2025, keeping an updated AD seems like the usual norm, but many organizations sometimes hesitate to take that first step to having an updated Active Directory. Due to some constraints. Most commonly, the sync is technical and complex, making organizations resist the execution of this sync-up. Data inconsistency often leads to errors, causing no uniformity for processes like employee access and HR reporting. Some organizations also want to have certain control over how their HR data is used.

Having a third-party integration solution can help organizations bridge the gap between these constraints and help make the connection between Zoho People to Okta Directory. And we will discuss how Hire2Retire can help you achieve this integration.

Overview of Zoho People

Zoho has a wide variety of apps and tools, around 50 apps. With this integration, you have the option of being within Zoho’s Ecosystem. Zoho has built-in integrated time tracking and attendance, usually preferred by organizations ranging from mid to large size.

Why Integrate Zoho to Okta Directory?

When you connect Zoho People to Okta Directory, a lot of processes get automated for your organization, like all the employee records get updated to your active directory, once the setup is done. Automatic provisioning and de-provisioning, employees leaving the organization can be automatically deleted from the Okta Directory.

Have Users Sync

Have Single Sign-On

Auto- provisioning & De-provisioning

Features like single sign-on and multi-factor authentication are important to help organizations meet their security and compliance requirements. They also save employees from password fatigue and help save time by resetting passwords for multiple apps and allowing users to log in to different sets of apps with the same credentials. Organizations often enhance their security by adding multi-factor authentication to single sign-on, requiring one or more pieces of evidence from the user to prove their identity. When you link your Zoho People to Okta Directory, executing these features becomes more feasible.

Why Use Hire2Retire?

Now that you are looking for an identity access management solution, you should take into consideration factors like your employee count, the integration option you are looking for, and also jot down all the necessary criteria based on the industry standards, for example, for Hospitality and hotel industries, often, location plays an important role as differentiating factor between employees, determining which organization unit bucket you want to put your employees in. Factors like the above and more will help you decide among the industry options. Hire2Retire can cater to multiple scenarios like this and help you create workflows specific to your organization’s needs. Be it managing employee sync for multiple locations, different time zones, and even managing temporary workers.

Steps to Connect Paycor to Okta Directory using Hire2Retire

Link your Zoho People and Okta Directory to Hire2Retire.

Specify Zoho People employee attributes and map them to Okta Directory employee attributes.

Establish group membership rules for role-based access control (RBAC).

Combine IT service desks and third-party applications to your Hire2Retire integration.

Utilize custom email templates for automated lifecycle communication.

Zoho People to Okta Directory sync up with RoboMQ will help your organization achieve all the compliance and security needs. While being an identity access management solution, Hire2Retire also provides organizations the flexibility to choose from its varied options and two different run modes to choose from: supervised and auto-pilot mode. With the former being you approving which flows and changes get updated within the Okta Directory. And auto-pilot mode, as the name suggests, with Hire2Retire executing the workflows automatically based on the set standards.

Are you curious to know more about how to create workflows using Hire2Retire for your integration needs? Click the button below to get in touch with our integration specialist.

Ashita Modi

Ashita Modi is a Marketing Specialist at RoboMQ with over five years of professional experience. Her expertise lies in content strategy, with a focus on creating user-oriented content. Ashita holds a degree from UCLA Extension, where she pursued a specialized content design and UX research program. She effectively integrates these skills to communicate information compellingly.

Establish Zoho People to Okta Directory Integration

Overview of Zoho People

Why Integrate Zoho to Okta Directory?

Why Use Hire2Retire?

Steps to Connect Paycor to Okta Directory using Hire2Retire

Ashita Modi

Ashita Modi

+1 (800) 880-3714

sales@robomq.io

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