Before we even start to use our FIM implementation to manage identities, we need to decide where the information about the identities will come from and where the information will go.
It is also very important that we start off with the essential connections and then add other connections after verifying that the basics are working.
A very typical scenario is the one we have—The Company has an HR (Human Resource) system that will, for the most part, work as the source of identity information. Then it has Active Directory, which is the primary system to receive identity information.
The basic flow will be HR - FIM - AD.
But that is only the basic flow, and as you will see later in this book, there are other sources of information and also other targets.