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SPML Overview

The Provisioning Server helps you manage, provision, and de-provision entities. A good provisioning system is vital for security and efficiency. Many companies have multiple provisioning systems. It can often be difficult to configure different provisioning systems to communicate with each other.

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has developed a markup language specifically designed to facilitate communications between and within user provisioning software. This is named SPML (Service Provisioning Markup Language).

SPML is an open standard that provides an XML-based protocol for provisioning requests. It facilitates provisioning requests between clients and servers that can be both intranet and extranet.