Workflows and Approvals

Workflows are powerful tools for provisioning users and establishing approvals in Identity Manager. However, because workflows often result in complex transactions involving human interaction, they are not ideally suited for environments in which simple provisioning actions need to be performed on millions of users.

As a result, Service Provider does not use workflows. Instead, Service Provider uses a transaction manager to carry out transactions, such as resource operations and updates to LDAP meta-data. The transaction manager persists all transactions into a database and ensures that any transaction failures caused by a resource or the Service Provider server are completed.

See Workflow Callouts for information about how callouts provide some of the functionality handled by workflows.