SCIM protocol business scenarios

The SCIM protocol is often adopted for user and group management on non-LDAP systems. New applications, both inside the enterprise and in cloud-related scenarios, can use HTTP REST to abstract away the underlying technology. SCIM can be used successfully in the following scenarios:

• Internal deployment of new identity services with SCIM as a provisioning protocol for long-term future use.
• Internal or external cloud where LDAP is unacceptable as protocol.
• Provisioning to SaaS applications that have SCIM as the user management interface.

See the SCIM website at http://www.simplecloud.info/ and search for SCIM scenarios.

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