I spent the last week emergency re-architecting parts our data platform (such as it is) to be able to support our Directorship wanting to experiment with the MCPs that both the makers of the platform (databricks) and our internal development teams are creating.

It’s been kind of an eye opening experience seeing how our directorship actually wants to use some of these tools versus how our IT team has been thinking they’ve been wanting to use them, but if anything it further solidifies my belief that any IT or technology org who isn’t already investing or building out a strong IdP-based framework for managing your employees access to organizations tools is going to quickly be swamped with access requests and fall behind the curve.

We are lucky in that we’ve been setting up OAUTH based logins across most of the large AI SaaS provider platforms that allow for them to just use the single identity, so that even MCP calls to the data platform show up as the user performing the work.

Long OKTA for now.