App Launcher
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Summary of App Launcher
App Launcher provides employees with one-click access to all web business applications from the Employee Center, enhancing productivity by simplifying application discovery. It allows synchronization of both SSO-integrated applications from Azure AD and manual registration of custom non-SSO applications, which can be accessed from the Employee Center home page widget, dynamic topic pages, and through search functionalities.
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Key Features
- SSO Integrated Apps: Automatically sync applications from Azure AD using Microsoft Entra ID, displaying only those accessible to users in SSO.
- Custom Web Applications (Non-SSO): Manually register applications not in SSO and define user criteria for visibility.
- Configuration Options: Manage SSO and custom applications on the home page widget, control widget preferences, and associate applications with topics for enhanced context.
- Personalization: Organize applications using categories (e.g., finance, IT), promote important apps as Featured, allow marking favorites, and access recently opened apps.
Key Outcomes
By implementing App Launcher, organizations can improve employee productivity through streamlined access to applications. The ability to categorize and personalize applications enhances user experience, while robust access control mechanisms ensure employees find relevant applications efficiently. Integration with AI search further optimizes the application discovery process, allowing for better navigation and access to business tools.
App Launcher enables you to provide employees one-click access to all of their web business applications from Employee Center.
Sync all your business applications from Azure AD and non-SSO, register the custom applications manually, and enable employees to access these applications. You can access the applications from the Employee Center home page widget in context from dynamic topic pages and through search.
- SSO Integrated Apps: App Launcher offers pre-built integration with Azure AD. If you use Microsoft Entra ID as an identity and access management tool, you can automatically sync the registered applications in your Azure AD account to the App Launcher. Only applications to which the users have access in SSO, such as Microsoft Entra ID, are displayed on Employee Center. The App Launcher framework enables you to integrate with other SSO vendors and sync registered applications. See Integration Hub for the availability of the required spokes, actions, and the license requirements.
- Custom web applications (Non-SSO): Register the applications manually which are not registered in SSO. Register the apps in the Web Application table and define the user criteria to control the visibility.
SSO and non-SSO app configuration
Configure both SSO integrated Apps and Custom registered apps on the Home page widget or topic page, manage the widget preferences, and associate applications to the topics. As an administrator, you can register applications, sync available applications, and give one-click access to the applications. You can associate topics to the applications to launch useful applications right from within Employee portal.- Create a unified application launcher that can increase employee productivity.
- Configure the integration such as sync SSO-applications, register custom applications, and assign applications to users or groups.
- Assign custom applications based on the role, location, business unit, team, and other criteria.
- Define the visibility and access to applications based on the user, user group, and other criteria.
- Integrate Azure AD and sync the registered applications from connected Azure AD account.
- Associate application to topics for in-context app discovery.
- Browse applications by Favorite, Featured, categories, and Recent.
- Improve employee productivity and experience.
- App launcher is an Employee Center Pro feature.
My applications user experience and personalization
- Categorization: Admins can map the applications to a suitable category such as finance, IT, events and more. You can create categories and assign the app to one or many app categories.
- Featured: Admins can use this option to promote new or important or seasonal applications for higher visibility. Tag important applications as featured for better visibility. Featured applications have visibility preferences and appear on the top of the page despite any filters or sorting.
- Favorites: Employees can mark the applications as favorite for easy access. Bookmark the apps you use frequently for quicker access.
- Recently opened: Employees can navigate to the recently opened apps from the recently open section.
Application access and visibility
Enhance application discovery and navigation on the App launcher by configuring the access and visibility settings. Understand how access control can improve the app discovery for employees and find relevant apps that they have access to.
For more information, see Configure application visibility and access.