Dynamic Hierarchy Policies

Often organizations have groups whose lifecycle is typically managed via scripts or time-consuming manual processes. These types of groups can be classified as “data-driven” groups. Data-driven groups are groups that should be created automatically, maintained automatically, and retired or deleted automatically based on the attribute query policies leveraging enterprise data from HR or any other authoritative sources. Dynamic Hierarchy policies can be used to entirely automate the lifecycle of these special groups.

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 the ability to generate nested groups based on business hierarchy. For example, organizations could have a group for each company with nested groups for each department within each company. The information to power these rules can be in HR, Active Directory, or another key system. Dynamic Hierarchy policies are easily defined and leverage this data to automatically create and maintain these valuable groups.

The power of Dynamic Hierarchies is their ability to run completely automated without any costly human intervention. Examples include:

• 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, money and improve the ability for users to collaborate effectively.

Dynamic Hierarchy policies can be viewed and created in the EmpowerID UI by navigating to Dynamic Hierarchies > Policies.