User provisioning software is software intended to help organizations more quickly, cheaply, reliably and securely manage information about users on multiple systems and applications.
People are represented by user objects or login accounts on different systems and applications.
Examples of systems and applications include: User objects generally consist of: Note that users need not be able to log into a system or application.
User objects are generally connected to other parts of a system or application through security entitlements.
Organizations implement business processes to create, manage and delete user objects on their systems and applications: Incidentally, the term lifecycle does not imply that users who have been deactivated will necessarily not be onboarded again.