Created in 2011 as an open standard, lightweight provisioning protocol for the “Cloud age,” SCIM provides a uniform way for applications to communicate identity information to each other. Leveraging API, REST, and JSON, SCIM provisions user data in a consistent way that can be stored and accessed across applications. Based on frameworks that are already shared with many SaaS identity management systems, SCIM’s underlying principles are twofold:
About the EmpowerID SCIM Microservice Connector
For systems not supported by out-of-the-box connectors, EmpowerID has embraced the SCIM standard to simplify connector development, deployment, and maintenance for customers and partners. The System for Cross Domain Identity Management (SCIM) is an open standard created to simplify and automate identity management of users, groups, and devices across Cloud-based applications and services. The basis of EmpowerID’s SCIM support is our SCIM Microservice Connector Framework. This framework is a ready-made SCIM Server Microservice that allows customers and partners to develop SCIM connectors for proprietary applications without needing to know anything about SCIM or EmpowerID’s API. Customers and partners are only responsible for their specific application connector code. Nothing else is required to expose non-SCIM compliant applications as standards-based SCIM microservices. This unique model dramatically reduces the difficulty in developing connectors and greatly expands their utility as they adhere to modern standards for interoperability.
EmpowerID provides a SCIM Microservice template that developers can use to create microservices using the SCIM 2.0 protocol. Developers only need to add the appropriate logic for your organization’s application. Once the logic is added, the microservice can be deployed to the appropriate environment, such as Azure, and connected to EmpowerID. Once connected, EmpowerID passes your commands to the microservice using the SCIM protocol.
