US 11,810,073 B1
SaaS application recommendation, approval, and fulfillment in a SaaS management platform
Ashish Aggarwal, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); Alex Van Liew, Seattle, WA (US); and Amit Bhosle, Redmond, WA (US)
Assigned to Productiv, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by Productiv, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/073,461.
Application 18/073,461 is a continuation of application No. 18/073,389, filed on Dec. 1, 2022, granted, now 11,695,825.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/10 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/103 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method implemented in a Software as a Service (SaaS) management platform (SMP), the SMP implemented in a cloud resource having at least one processor and at least one storage device, the method comprising:
providing, over a network, a user interface for rendering by a client device to an employee of a customer of the SMP;
receiving, over the network, input from the client device via the user interface, said input identifying a request by the employee for a SaaS application that is one of a portfolio of SaaS applications used by the customer and managed by the SMP;
accessing an approval setting stored in association with the SaaS application, the approval setting configured to authorize automated approval of the employee for the SaaS application;
responsive to receiving the input, and based on the approval setting, then triggering a single sign-on (SSO) service to provision the employee as a user of the SaaS application.