Azure AD is a highly-available and highly-scalable identity management service for small and large organizations. It enables organizations to use their corporate credentials to authenticate to new or existing applications, factoring out the authentication process and eliminating the need for many different identities. Organizations that already use on-premise Active Directory can synchronize their identities with Azure AD to provide seamless integration between on-premises and cloud resources.
Benefits
Simplify and Secure access from anywhere
Simplify user access to any cloud app
Enable single sign-on to simplify user access to thousands of cloud applications from Windows, Mac and iOS devices. Users can launch cloud applications from a personalized web-based
Protect sensitive data and applications
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication prevents unauthorized access to both on-premises and cloud applications by providing an additional level of authentication. Protect your business with security monitoring and alerts and machine learning-based reports that identify inconsistent access patterns to mitigate potential threats.
Enable self-service for your employees
Delegate important tasks such as resetting passwords and the creation and management of groups to your employees. Provide Self-service Password Change and Reset and Self-service Group Management with Azure Active Directory
Integrate with Active Directory
Extend Active Directory and any other on-premises directories to Azure Active Directory for single sign on to all cloud-based applications. User attributes can be automatically synchronized to your cloud directory from all kinds of on-premises directories.Enterprise Scale and SLA
Enterprise Scale and SLA
Azure Active Directory Premium can provide the level of scale and reliability required by enterprises. Azure Active Directory is a high available service hosted in globally distributed datacenters. The service handles billions of authentications each day from more than 200 million active users and provides a 99.9 percent SLA.