Employee Self-Service

Enable Easy Employee Self-Service Via Agent Cake.

Empower your employees to self-serve the apps they need—eliminate IT help desk hassle while increasing compliance.

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Cakewalk employee self-service access request interface

Why Employee Self-Service?

Offer a Single Directory for All Access.

Consolidate all your apps and infrastructure in one directory, making it easy for employees to find tools used at your company and app owners.

Enable Easy Access Requests Via Agent Cake.

Allow your users to request access conversationally via Agent Cake directly in Slack or from your Cakewalk app directory. Make it easy for employees to follow access control policies and use apps only after approval.

Learn more about Enable Easy Access Requests Via Agent Cake.

Increase IT Efficiency.

Eliminate manual ticketing systems and cut IT time spent on app approvals by over 80%. No more emails, spreadsheets or complex ticketing.

Define Custom Approval Policies.

Easily customize approval flows with Cakewalk's Policy Builder. Assign approval policies to applications or specific permission levels—for example, requiring extra CTO approval for certain infrastructure access.

Learn more about Define Custom Approval Policies.

Get Audit-Ready with Complete Access Logs.

Automatically track every access creation or removal via our non-editable Access Logs—be audit-ready at the click of a button.

Who Benefits from Self-Service?

IT and security team using Cakewalk for self-service access management

IT & Security Teams.

Implementing self-serve access makes IT & Security teams company-wide enablers: providing access where needed while keeping things compliant and secure.

Team lead managing access permissions in Cakewalk

Team Leads.

Reduced involvement in administrative tasks allows more focus on team performance.

Employee self-service access request in Cakewalk

Employees.

Self-service enables employees to get the access they need to stay productive while keeping things compliant.

How Does Employee Self-Service Work?

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Set Up Your Company's App Directory

Set up your company-specific app directory with all apps under your access governance. Differentiate between "Managed" and "Non-Managed" apps.

2

Activate Agent Cake

Let employees chat with Agent Cake conversationally: "Hey Cakewalk, I need access to GitHub." Agent Cake will handle it.

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Use Slack or the Cakewalk Platform

If your company uses Slack, let employees send access requests directly within Slack. They can also request access from the Cakewalk app.

4

Review Status and Logs

Review the status of every single request in real time and get complete logs for your next audit.

Learn more about Audits

Enterprise-Grade Access Management With Consumer-Grade Usability.

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Deep Technical Power

Consolidate All Access Data

All identities, apps and AI agents. One system of record. Sync your key apps and agents in real time. Cut redundant tools by 25%.

Automate Workflows

Use Agent Cake to automate tedious access control processes.

Generate Insights

Get auto insights and take action based on clean access data.

Govern AI Agents

Gain visibility into the AI Agents your teams are using to guarantee fully compliant AI Governance.

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Unlimited Customizations

Create workflows via our Policy Builder

Build your own approval workflows based on your specific organizational needs.

Customize views via our Smart Tables and Custom Fields.

Add individual meta context to every access via our Custom Fields and create your own dynamic views and reports in Smart Tables.

Differentiate between Managed and Non-Managed applications

For every app auto-detected by Cakewalk, decide whether the application is governed by your internal policies and Cakewalk or not.

Build with our Open API

Build custom workflows and integrations seamlessly using Cakewalk's Open API.

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Intuitive User Experience

Get Going Easily

Get going with over 5,600 apps supported out-of-the-box, zero integration effort required.

Make IGA a Piece of Cake

Manage all IGA workflows in an intuitive, yet granular manner.

Enable your teams to comply

Get auto insights and take action based on clean access data.

Self-Service Is Just One Part of Cakewalk's Identity Governance Platform.

1 Consolidate all access data 2 Fully automate IGA 3 Get guidance based on insights

FAQs About Employee Self-Service.

How does Agent Cake process Access Requests?
Cakewalk's AI Agent allows users to chat with Cakewalk to request access. Employees can submit access requests conversationally, and Agent Cake will then trigger an Access Request based on the message.
Will Agent Cake grant access without approval?
No. Agent Cake only initiates Access Requests, which must then go through an approval process. You can define these approval flows based on your organization's needs.
What data does Agent Cake access? Does it store credentials?
No. Agent Cake does not access or store any credentials. Cakewalk's AI Agent only requires the user's name, email, the application name and the permission level.
Does Cakewalk have an official Slack app?
Yes, Cakewalk is an officially supported Slack app.

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