A person is the base identity object that EmpowerID uses to link together the user accounts, the permissions assignments, the audit history, and the management policies associated with a specific user. When you turn on inventory for an account store—and enable Person Provisioning for that account store—EmpowerID creates a Person identity for each new user account discovered in the account store. However, a person does not need to have an external user account anywhere and you can create new Person identities for new users at any time.