A provisioning system provides identity lifecycle management for application users in enterprises and manages their credentials.
Provisioning systems have become critical components of enterprise identity and access management strategies. IBM® Security Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On provides real-time implementation of access security policies for users and applications.
Integrating IBM Security Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On with a provisioning system results in a complete identity and access management solution.
A complete solution provides automatic application account provisioning, centralized views of all application accounts, sign-on or sign-off automation, authentication management, user-centric audit logs and report generation, and centralized de-provisioning for all accounts.
Before you use automated provisioning, you must configure the IMS Server provisioning bridge. The provisioning bridge automates the IMS Server credential distribution process with third party provisioning systems by using API libraries with a SOAP connection.
See the following topics for more information about IBM Security Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On and provisioning.