Most enterprise solutions adopt products and services from multiple cloud providers to accomplish various business requirements. This makes it insufficient to maintain user identities only in a corporate LDAP. Identity provisioning plays a key role in propagating user identities across different SaaS providers. Doing this in a non-proprietary way is the The challenge that the SCIM (system for cross-domain identity management) specification intends to address is, how to propagate these user identities in an unconventional manner.
SPML concepts
Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) is an XML-based framework developed by OASIS for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information between cooperating organizations. The Service Provisioning Markup language is the open standard for the integration and interoperation of service provisioning requests. The goal of SPML is to allow organizations to securely and quickly set up user interfaces for Web services and applications, by letting enterprise platforms such as Web portals, application servers, and service centers generate provisioning requests within and across organizations. This can lead to automation of user or system access and entitlement rights to electronic services across diverse IT infrastructures, so that customers are not locked into proprietary solutions.
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