When employees join, change roles, or leave, someone in finance or operations had to manually update Prendio — creating the account, setting the department, assigning approval and spend limits, and later revoking access and rebuilding approval paths when the employee moves on. It’s steady administrative work that most procurement teams have come to accept as part of the job.
For biotech and life sciences teams, that work has gotten harder to absorb. As organizations scale through funding rounds and add distributed teams, lean finance and operations functions are stretched thinner, and the bar for audit readiness keeps rising — investors, auditors, and regulators all expect clear, controlled access across financial systems. Manual user management that was tolerable at twenty employees becomes a real source of risk at two hundred.
Today we’re changing that. Prendio now supports automated user provisioning through SCIM, the same industry standard your IT team already uses to manage access across the rest of your tech stack. Once connected, your identity provider — Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, or OneLogin — drives who can access Prendio and what they’re authorized to do.
When user management is manual, small problems accumulate. Delays in onboarding slow down new hires, gaps in offboarding can leave departed employees with active purchasing access, and approval paths break quietly when managers change roles or departments restructure. For finance and procurement leaders, those issues add up to real compliance and audit exposure over time.
Automated user provisioning keeps Prendio continuously aligned with your organization’s actual structure, so when something changes in your IdP, Prendio updates to match.
SCIM User Provisioning is built on SCIM 2.0 (IETF RFC 7643/7644), authenticated with OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens over HTTPS, and designed to work alongside your existing SSO configuration rather than replace it. If your HRIS — Workday, HiBob, or similar — already feeds into your IdP, Prendio picks up those changes downstream, so no direct HRIS integration is required.
Setup is a three-step process that typically completes in under an hour. First, securely connect your identity provider to Prendio using SCIM 2.0. Next, map the user attributes — department, approval limits, manager — that you want flowing into Prendio. From that point forward, every user change in your IdP syncs to Prendio automatically.
New hires can access Prendio on their first day. When a new employee is assigned to Prendio in your IdP, their account is created automatically, with the correct department and approval limits already configured and no IT ticket required.
Offboarding happens immediately. The moment a user is deprovisioned in your identity provider, their Prendio access is revoked and approval paths adjust on their own, so there’s no window where a departed employee retains purchasing authority.
Purchasing controls stay aligned with your organization. Departments, approval limits, and spend thresholds are driven by identity attributes, which means that when a team is reorganized or a manager is promoted, Prendio updates accordingly.
Administrative load drops. Identity is managed in one place rather than across multiple systems, so finance and operations teams spend less time maintaining Prendio and fewer inconsistencies slip through.
This release reflects a broader commitment we laid out in our 2026 Outlook: continuing to reduce operational friction for biotech teams so they can stay focused on science. Automated user provisioning came directly from our customers. Finance, operations, and IT leaders across our customer base told us how much time manual user management was costing them as their organizations grew, and we built this functionality in response.
Looking ahead, our focus remains on investing in intelligence, visibility, and scalability so Prendio keeps pace with your science rather than the other way around. Automated user provisioning is one step on that path, and more improvements will follow — shaped by the same customer conversations that led us here.