It would be pretentious to think that anyone knows the right identity management approach for your organization without fully understanding the challenges and goals associated with your business processes and your technology. For some organizations, user management is defined as periodically updating a few attributes, while other organizations have a more evolved identity solution, and one or more actions will trigger multiple accounts to be provisioned, updated, or deprovisioned. Generally speaking, the authors agree that user management should strive to aggregate, manage, provision, deprovision, and synchronize changes.
MIM aggregates information into unique objects in the Metaverse. Thus, a user can have a single object representation for all their identities throughout the organization. In other words, the system that is authoritative for each piece of identity information builds a representation that we call a Metaverse object.
MIM is designed to interact with systems...