Benefits of Using SPML

The benefits of the SPML include the following:

SPML is an open standard and can therefore communicate with other provisioning systems that can process SPML Requests. This lets businesses continue to use and integrate existing systems.
Data can be shared across different provisioning systems to leverage the best features of each system.
SPML is especially designed to handle provisioning-related data.
SPML can easily handle data driven assignments of role-based access control.
SPML is a best-of-breed technology for user provisioning.
SPML facilitates business-to-business communications, where appropriate.
SPML XML requests and responses are more human-readable than LDAP. Requests which is the native language of the Provisioning Server.
SPML is a web-based technology.