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# Azure AD recommendation: Integrate your third party apps
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[Azure AD recommendations](overview-recommendations.md) is a feature that provides you with personalized insights with actionable guidance to align your tenant with recommended best practices.
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[Azure AD recommendations](overview-recommendations.md) is a feature that provides you with personalized insights and actionable guidance to align your tenant with recommended best practices.
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This article covers the recommendation to integrate third party apps.
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## Description
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As an Azure AD admin responsible for managing applications, you want to use the Azure AD security features.
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As an Azure AD admin responsible for managing applications, you want to use the Azure AD security features with your third party apps. Integrating these apps into Azure AD enables:
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- You to use one unified method to manage access to your third party apps.
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- Your users to benefit from using single sign-on to access all your apps with a single password.
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No users are currently authenticating to any pre-integrated, custom app (BYOA) or SaaS app.
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## Logic
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Any customer that is not currently authenticating to any pre-integrated, custom (BYOA), or SaaS app with AAD will receive this recommendation. This is validated by whether an application has an "application template id" or "parentappId" in the app metadata, These 2 values indicate that the customer has configured a pre-integrated app from our app gallery or configured a customer application via Bring Your Own App.
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If Azure AD determines that none of your users are using Azure AD to authenticate to your third party apps, this recommendation shows up.
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## Value
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Integrating 3rd party apps with Azure AD allows you to leverage Azure AD's security features, which enables seamless, more productive and more secure sign-ins. You can add an additional security layer to your 3rd party app sign-ins by using conditional access.Action Plan
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Integrating third party apps with Azure AD allows you to leverage Azure AD's security features.
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The integration:
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- Improves the productivity of your users.
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Review your apps. Enterprise applications
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- Lowers your app management cost.
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For each eligible apps, integrate your 3rd party app with Azure AD. Tutorials for integrating SaaS applications with Azure AD
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You can then add an additional security layer by using conditional access to control how your users can access your apps.
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## Action plan
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1. Review the configuration of your apps.
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2. For each app that is not integrated into Azure AD yet, verify whether an integration is possible.
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## Next steps
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*[Azure AD reports overview](overview-reports.md)
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*[Programmatic access to Azure AD reports](concept-reporting-api.md)
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*[Azure Active Directory risk detections](../identity-protection/overview-identity-protection.md)
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-[Tutorials for integrating SaaS applications with Azure Active Directory](../saas-apps/tutorial-list.md)
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