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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.