# Cakewalk for Admins

### ❓**Why Use Cakewalk?**

Admins use Cakewalk to **orchestrate governance at scale**. It gives you:

* A single source of truth for users, apps and access.
* Fully automated lifecycle for joiners, movers and leavers.
* Unlimited customization with Policy Builder & Custom Layouts.
* End-to-end automated access management across your app stack.
* Delegate access approvals to reduce admin overhead.

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### 🧑‍💻**Everyday Workflows**

#### **User Directory**

* View all users and their access levels in “User Overview”.
* Manage onboardings and offboardings.
* Sync and govern groups from your HRIS or IdP.

💡 *Why this matters:* Consolidated identity data reduces manual tracking.

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#### **App Governance**

* Manage your company's entire app inventory.
* Triage newly discovered apps via browser extension and SSO.
* Govern non-SSO as well as custom apps.
* Monitor all user requests.

💡 *Why this matters:* Keeps the app catalog complete, compliant and up-to-date.

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#### **Task Management**

* Oversee and escalate tasks (joiners/leavers, access requests).
* Assign tasks to the right owners with clear accountability.
* Track real-time completion of onboardings/offboardings.

💡 *Why this matters:* Ensures no joiner or leaver slips through the cracks.

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#### **Policy Builder**

* Define custom workflows for each app and request type.
* Coordinate multi-step approvals with all relevant stakeholders.
* Add redundancy with groups or multiple reviewers per step.

💡 *Why this matters:* Flexible approvals support compliance and least privilege.

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#### **Custom Layouts**

* Maintain up-to-date application metadata.
* Define vendor information during vendor approval flows.

💡 *Why this matters:* Structured metadata helps with audits and spend reviews.

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#### **Open API**

* Read/write Cakewalk data to sync users, apps and accesses.
* Set up webhooks for real-time updates and to trigger external automations.
* Plug Cakewalk into your entire IT stack for full interoperability.

💡 *Why this matters:* Integrates Cakewalk into your IT workflows seamlessly.

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#### **Auto-provisioning**

* Use **Agent Cake** for auto-provisioning that runs independent of SCIM.
* Integrate Cakewalk with your IdP to leverage your existing workflow automations in Cakewalk.
* Combine IdP + Agent Cake for full coverage.
* Enable **No-Touch Onboarding** to skip the manual review step for a designated IdP group. New users in that group are onboarded and provisioned automatically. Configure it in Settings → Data Sources → Users → *Manage integration settings*.

💡 *Why this matters:* Reduces repetitive admin effort.


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