Brief Description
A provisioning engine is responsible for synchronizing records from an IDMS and various target service providers (SPs). This synchronization usually considers a variety of eligibility rules to determine who should have access to what services for how long and with what authorizations.
Enterprise Provisioning refers to a model of a single IDMS with a master set of identities managing SPs within the virtual boundary of the enterprise (including, say, cloud services). Federated Provisioning refers to a model of multiple IDMSs sharing SPs across enterprise boundaries. The requirements of enterprise and federated provisioning are similar, but not identical.