Identity Lifecycle Automation
Identity Lifecycle
IAM Provisioning at Scale
Automate enterprise identity and access management from hire to retire—policy-driven provisioning, continuous reconciliation, and identity governance that keeps every account accurate across your stack.
The EmpowerID Difference
Why Organizations Choose EmpowerID
What's different vs. the usual IGA vendors.
Policy-Based Engine
Others trigger tasks and hope they stick. We maintain a target state and remediate drift automatically.
No-Code Exceptions
Handle the 1% edge cases with visual workflows—no fragile scripts to maintain.
One Platform
IGA + PAM + Access + runtime authorization in one stack—less sprawl, faster value.
Hybrid Depth
Cloud, on-prem, and legacy via 300+ connectors and universal connector for niche apps.
How It Works
The Identity Lifecycle Engine
Three pillars working together 24/7 to automate identity lifecycle
ALM Inventory
What IS • Real-time
Continuous discovery across 300+ systems
Policy
What SHOULD BE • No-code
Define access policies through visual rules
Reconciliation
Fix the Gap • 24/7
Automated enforcement never stops
Identity Lifecycle Micro Flow
Know what you have → Define what you should have → Automatically enforce.
Know What You Have
Continuous inventory across identities, accounts, groups, roles and licenses. Shadow and orphaned access surface immediately.
- • Continuous reconciliation
- • Multi-cloud & on-prem discovery
- • Shadow/Orphan detection
Define What You Should Have
Business policies set the "should": birthright, roles and constraints by org, job, location and attributes.
- • RBAC + ABAC
- • SoD templates • business functions
- • Time-boxed/project access
Automatically Enforce
Calculate target state, execute the delta, and reconcile drift 24/7. Violations fixed in hours, not quarters.
- • Target-state + delta execution
- • CDC-driven drift detection
- • Real-time evidence & certification
⚡ No-Code "If This, Then That" (Exception Orchestration)
IF THIS
- • Person Leaver
- • Mailbox Discovered
- • Account Takeover
- • Person Mover
- • Custom Event
THEN THAT
- • Disable → Archive → Notify
- • Reclaim licenses
- • Terminate after 30d
- • Timing • Dependencies • Approvals
WITH RULES
- • Employee: 30d retention
- • Contractor: 7d retention
- • VIP: step-up + dual control
- • Unlimited variations per event
Event-Driven vs. Policy-Based
Why traditional IAM keeps you in reactive mode
Event-Driven IAM
THE OLD WAY
HR Event Occurs
Execute Provisioning Task
Hope It Worked
Discover Problems in Audit
Too late!
The Cost of Reactive IAM:
- • 87% of provisioning tasks fail silently (Gartner)
- • 3-6 weeks of drift between audit cycles
- • Always reacting to problems after they occur
Policy-Based IGA
THE FUTURE
Continuous Inventory
Policy-Defined State
Automated Reconciliation
Always Compliant
Zero drift, audit-ready
Proven Results:
- • 100% delivery rate with queue-based processing
- • Sub-second policy evaluation at scale
- • Always in control with continuous enforcement
HR-Driven Identity Lifecycle
Many organizations use a Human Capital Management (HCM) system to both maintain user data for employees and to initiate all status changes. Ideally, this should include the entire lifecycle—start-to-finish—of interactions and communications with that user.
This includes the pre-hire interview process, the start-date and birthright access provisioning (the entitlements they get when they start work with your company), transfers, and terminations – all of which would be managed and initiated within the HCM.
EmpowerID fully supports this by integrating closely with an organization's HCM to detect all lifecycle changes and to then automate the management of Compliant Access throughout the Joiner, Mover, and Leaver (JML) processes.
Moreover, EmpowerID supports all the major HCM systems, including any that support the System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) standard.
HCM Integration
Seamless connection to your authoritative HR source
Compliant Access
Defined by your policies, enforced automatically
The Compliant Identity Lifecycle
It is far easier to deliver access than it is to deliver Compliant Access. Unfortunately, IT organizations have traditionally seen provisioning technical entitlements as the finish line—it is not.
This provisioning has typically led to, among others, overprivileged users, increased organizational risk, regulatory violations, and vulnerability to hackers and malware.
Though these situations were never ideal, due to industry regulations and technology limitations, they were tolerated.
However, changes in Compliant Access regulations means that the limitations of yesterday are only invalid excuses today.
Compliant Access is required, organization's must comply, and there are no exceptions.
What Is Compliant Access?
In the Identity Lifecycle, Compliant Access is defined as a secure desired state against which a user's current access must continuously be measured and adjusted.
This contrasts with the traditional, previous approach where lifecycle changes are merely a series of triggered scripted events.
With this scripted event approach, much like when taking your car for it's annual TUV or MOT (or equivalent in your country), it only provides a snapshot in time and is out of date soon after.
This is inadequate for Compliant Access today.
Continuous Measurement
Always comparing current state to desired state
Automatic Enforcement
State-based engine maintains compliance 24/7
EmpowerID Makes Compliant Access Automatic, Simple, and Fast
With EmpowerID, to detect and prevent risk, Compliant Access is defined using both position-based roles and policies. These roles and policies are those of your own, they are set by you, and they determine the desired "compliant" state for your organization. It is against this compliant state that EmpowerID operates.
When EmpowerID is connected to your HCM, it first inventories your organization's systems to retrieve data about your users, roles, and technical entitlements. This data determines exactly who has access to what resources and entitlements at any moment in time—it is your organization's current, live and up-to-date inventoried state.
EmpowerID then detects gaps by comparing the live, inventoried state versus your static, desired "compliant" state.
EmpowerID then initiates all required changes, achieves equilibrium, and your organization maintains its compliant state.
EmpowerID and the JML Lifecycle
Most compliance gaps occur based on your HR system's lifecycle changes (the JML process):
- • Joiners are quickly identified because gaps will appear when they do not have access to the entitlements that their role requires.
- • Movers are typically users changing jobs or locations. In such cases, EmpowerID will detect incorrect access: This is usually because they are missing some access appropriate to their new position and also retain access to entitlements from their old position. Either way, this is no longer compliant and will be addressed.
- • Leavers are users that have been marked as no longer with the organization and all access from them is considered non-compliant.
EmpowerID's state-based Compliant Access Delivery Engine continuously recalculates these variances of actual versus desired and then automates the provisioning of new access and deprovisioning of non-compliant access.
JML Automation
Joiners, Movers, and Leavers handled automatically
Visual Workflows
No-code process automation
Flexible Lifecycle Workflows
No two organization's JML processes are identical, so an IAM cookie cutter approach is no option.
Our own customers have told us that attempting to bend their organization's processes to the configuration options available in most IGA platforms was painful.
Moreover, it not only nullified the advantages of automation but also proved to be time-consuming, costly, and unsustainable in the long run.
(In at least two cases, this was to such an extent that an entire team needed to be created to manage the customizations, that vendor updates forced them to revisit their own code to keep the software working, and their now modified version bore little resemblance to the initial solution they intended to purchase.)
EmpowerID's Business Process Automation/Low Code Orchestration Platform
EmpowerID has unique DNA among all IGA vendors as it was developed entirely on a Business Process Automation or "low code orchestration" platform.
In the EmpowerID model, entire processes are described and automated as visual workflows and not simply human approval processes.
The unique flexibility of the "everything is a workflow" model allows organizations to maintain their own business requirements for identity lifecycle without compromise or costly, unsupportable, and long-term unsustainable custom development.
EmpowerID's JML processes offer common configuration options that fit the need of most organizations and with the ability to uniquely handle exceptions in the visually designed workflows.
The flexibility of this model not only allows for much greater automation but also the enhanced enforcement of, and reporting on, Compliant Access policies.
Everything is a Workflow
Visual process automation for any scenario
300+ Connectors
Out-of-the-box support for major systems
Automated Provisioning to All Your Systems
The real measure of any identity lifecycle solution is its ability to provision and maintain compliant access in as many of an organization's systems as possible.
After all, if it only provides partial coverage then it cannot ever succeed as a complete identity lifecycle solution.
EmpowerID provides one of the largest libraries of out-of-the-box connectors for on-premise and Cloud systems available.
Out of the box systems can be quickly and easily configured using simple, drag-and-drop workflow-based processes.
When the connection is complete, EmpowerID inventories your system, monitors it for changes, and is ready for your automated provisioning and deprovisioning policies.
It is important to note that many of EmpowerID's out-of-the-box connectors offer much deeper support than is typically available for inventorying and managing fine-grained application permissions.
Simplified Standards-Based Connector Development
For systems not supported by out-of-the-box connectors, EmpowerID has adopted the System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) standard.
SCIM is an open standard that was created to simplify, and automate identity management of users, groups, and devices across Cloud-based applications and services.
SCIM simplifies connector development, deployment, and maintenance for customers and partners.
SCIM Standard
Open standard for identity management
Microservice Framework
Ready-made SCIM server for easy integration
EmpowerID's SCIM Microservice Connector Framework
The basis of our SCIM support is EmpowerID's SCIM Microservice Connector Framework.
This framework is a ready-made SCIM Server Microservice that allows customers and partners to develop SCIM connectors for proprietary applications without knowing anything about SCIM or EmpowerID's API.
In such cases, customers and partners are only responsible for their specific application connector code and nothing else is required to expose non-SCIM compliant applications as standards-based SCIM microservices.
This unique model not only dramatically reduces the difficulty in developing connectors but also greatly expands their utility as they adhere to modern interoperability standards.
Proven at Enterprise Scale
Customer success metrics from Fortune 500 deployments
Analyst Recognition
Industry recognition for identity lifecycle management excellence
EIC 2021 Award
"IAM at Scale" Category
569K identities with 4.3M monthly changes at enterprise scale
KuppingerCole Leadership
Overall, Product, Innovation Leader
Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) Leadership Compass
