SSO for legacy ERP and desktop business applications.
ERP landscapes often include more than the core ERP platform: desktop utilities, companion tools, reporting clients, finance applications and bespoke operational systems. Beanstalk helps these surrounding applications join the same modern sign-in world as the rest of the enterprise.
The core system may be modernising, but the surrounding desktop tools remain.
Business users often depend on specialist desktop tools that sit beside ERP, finance, warehouse, maintenance or operational systems.
These tools may contain important business logic but have their own username/password model or rely on local network assumptions.
Beanstalk gives those applications a route to central identity without forcing the organisation to replace everything at once.
Use cases around ERP environments
- Desktop applications that launch ERP-related workflows or read/write controlled business data.
- Finance, purchasing, maintenance, warehouse or administrative tools that are too useful to retire but too old for native SSO.
- Customer-specific companion utilities maintained by internal teams, vendors or specialist consultants.
Why a broker is useful in these environments
- ERP and desktop ecosystems often contain multiple technologies and deployment histories, making a single identity SDK unrealistic.
- Beanstalk creates a common authentication pattern for applications that can call COM, while leaving each application’s own business logic intact.
- Identity provider differences can be handled through configuration instead of rebuilding the application for every environment.
What the business gains
- A practical way to reduce legacy sign-in exceptions around important business applications.
- A user experience closer to the rest of the enterprise: browser sign-in, central MFA and familiar identity policy.
- More time to plan broader modernisation without leaving authentication behind.
Find out whether your application is a good candidate.
Tell us the application technology, current login method, identity provider and deployment model. We can usually tell quickly whether Beanstalk is a practical fit, what would need to change, and where the integration risk sits.