Cloud HR application to Azure Active Directory user provisioning providers other than Workday or salesforce

Question

When setting up Azure Active Directory user provisioning from a cloud based HR application, the documentation only specifies Workday and Success Factors. Is there a way to utilise other cloud based HR applications to be the source of user provisioning? For example Oracle Cloud HCM.

Answer 1

Hello @Tony Bates , besides selected apps such as Workforce and SuccessFactors, Entra ID/Azure AD supports API-driven inbound provisioning, currently in public preview. This is an alternative to the standard MS Graph user operations and is designed to handle a different enterprise identity integration scenario shaped by three unique requirements:

1. Ability to asynchronously process records in bulk (for example, processing 50K+ records)
2. Ability to include any identity attribute in the payload (for example, costCenter, pay grade, badgeId)
3. Support API clients unaware of operation semantics. These clients are non-SCIM API clients that only have access to raw source data (for example, records in CSV file, SQL table or HR records). These clients don't have the processing capability to read each record and determine the operation semantics of Create/Update/Delete on the identity store.

For more information take a look to Frequently asked questions about API-driven inbound provisioning (Public preview).

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