Build multi-app products
Multi-app businesses are companies that include various platforms, different product lines, or offerings for multiple marketplaces. Centralized identity systems are crucial for these rapidly expanding businesses.
What are the risks of not having one centralized identity system for multi-app businesses?
One user, but duplicated accounts
- Redundant accounts for each platform or app
- Customers more easily forget their login credentials
- Higher support burden for the business
Increased development complexity and cost
- Increased development complexity and costs
- Disparities between apps posing a risk to end customers
- Extra scope and technical complexity
User access management challenges
- Requiring establishing different authorization policies
- Revoking access can be more complicated
- Challenging to maintain a holistic view
Security, compliance and privacy concerns
- Lack of standardized security measures
- Challenging across all participating nodes or entities
- Increases the overall attack surface
Logto is perfectly suited to support multi-app businesses
It understands the intricacies of operating numerous apps and offers a comprehensive solution for efficient identity management.
Multiple apps in a single tenant on Logto Cloud
Logto Cloud allows multiple apps to operate under a single tenant. This gives you lots of flexibilities when building multi-app business and products in one centralized identity system.
Omni Sign-in for a cohesive experience
In the case of multi-app businesses, it is highly common for them to desire a unified branding experience that feels cohesive and consistent. The solution lies in Logto omni sign-in experience.
Multiple domains, one sign-in experience
If you have multiple products with multiple domains, one single sign in URL works for them all!
One user identity system
Regardless of the app from which a user is registered, Logto consolidates them into a single user pool, making it incredibly simple to manage users across multiple apps.
Role-based access control
In multi-app environments, it is common for authorization policies to become more complex. Therefore, pairing RBAC (role-based access control) becomes a necessity. Assigning roles to each user enables precise access control, ensuring that users have the appropriate level of permissions.
Discover our blogs related to multi-app scenarios
Why you need a centralized identity system for a multi-app businessThis article is here to help you develop a secure and scalable identity system for your multi-app business. We will cover best practices, key factors to consider, and provide quick-start guides to get you started on the right track.
CIAM 101: Authentication, Identity, SSOLogto started with the CIAM for various reasons (we’ll have another article talking about this). During development, we realized that building a unified understanding across the team would be beneficial before taking our product to the next level. We hope this will also help you gain a better grasp of the IAM landscape.
Logto's multi-tenancy model explainedTake a look at how we designed Logto's multi-tenancy model and the benefits it brings to SaaS apps.