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Dynamic Group Management (Hierarchies)
Dynamic Group Automation
EmpowerID’s Group Management module provides self-service, delegated administration, and role-based group membership for groups or application roles in all your systems. These tasks are performed using friendly web-based interfaces and workflows. For most organizations, there are other categories of groups whose lifecycles are typically managed via scripts or time-consuming manual processes. These are your data-driven groups. Data-driven groups are groups that should be created automatically, whose membership should be updated automatically, and which should be retired or deleted automatically based upon attribute query policies leveraging enterprise data from HR or any of your other authoritative sources. EmpowerID’s Dynamic Group Management module entirely automates the lifecycle of these special groups.
Dynamic Group Hierarchies
EmpowerID’s Dynamic Hierarchies engine is like an autopilot for creating data-driven nested groups in systems like Active Directory and Azure Active Directory. The idea behind Dynamic Hierarchies is simple: organizations need collaboration or email groups for each location, company, division, department, and manager. Even more useful is to generate nested groups based on the business hierarchy. For example, a group for each Company and then nested inside a group for each department within each company. The information to power these rules can be found in HR, Active Directory, or another key system. Dynamic Hierarchy policies are easily defined and leverage this data to create and maintain these valuable groups automatically.
The power of Dynamic Hierarchies is their ability to run completely automated without any costly human intervention. As an example, when a new department is added to HR, it will automatically show up as a nested group. If Sarah gets promoted and has 5 new direct reports, her team gets its own distribution list. If your organization is undergoing a complete reorganization, the new structure is automatically created and will be accurate. Dynamic Group Hierarchies save organizations time and money and improve the ability of users to collaborate effectively.
Leverage Data from Any System
EmpowerID includes one of the largest libraries of IGA system connectors available. EmpowerID inventories user and HR record data from a wide variety of systems ranging from modern Cloud HR systems such as Workday, SuccessFactors, Ultipro, and others to traditional on-premise systems such as Active Directory, RACF, and SAP. These authoritative sources of user data empower flexible attribute-based policies to maintain up-to-date groups for collaboration and security.