One of the key concepts to understanding EmpowerID is its Identity Warehouse, sometimes known as the Identity and Entitlement Warehouse. This is the primary database of EmpowerID that stores all major data including configuration and policies, major EmpowerID objects like Person and Roles, inbox and outbox queues used to stage detected changes and outbound changes between EmpowerID and managed systems, as well as the tables holding the inventoried objects and their data from external managed systems. External managed systems are referred to as Account Stores and Resource Systems in EmpowerID terminology.
High-Level Stats for the Identity Warehouse:
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A key term you will encounter when working with EmpowerID or its support staff are is the EmpowerID “Components.” The components are how the Identity Warehouse tables, views, and stored procedures are exposed for use in the API. All major SQL tables and views are created as programmable objects against which the user interface acts to retrieve and view their data and workflows and code act to create, update, or delete them. All of the columns in SQL for a table or view become properties of its corresponding programmable component object. Therefore, extending the schema is referred to as extending the components by adding new “virtual” properties or methods. We’ll talk about extending the schema in more depth in a later training module.
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