EmpowerID can inventory role and location hierarchies from external systems such as HR, SaaS applications, AD, or LDAP directories. These applications and directories may contain actual role and location structures or a structure can be built using connector logic based on user attributes such as title, department, and country.
These "external roles" and "external locations" along with the assignment of user accounts to these are inventoried into the EmpowerID data model.
For example, the below image shows some sample external locations in EmpowerID.
We can use a dynamic hierarchy policy to automatically generate external Business Roles and Locations based on the value of a specified person attribute, such as the name of their department. After the policy is created, the Dynamic Hierarchy engine will add any person with the matching attribute values to the Role and Location.
Key Takeaways:
EmpowerID can inventory role and location hierarchies from external systems such as HR.
We can use a dynamic hierarchy policy to automatically generate external Business Roles and Locations.