Identity Manager includes a broad set of pre-built drivers that provide provisioning integration with many popular applications, databases, operating systems, directories, SaaS, and other identity-aware systems that are widely used. Each driver supports a wide range of identity management functions.The SaaS drivers enable you to integrate your enterprise identities with cloud applications by providing capabilities such as provisioning, deprovisioning, request/approval processes, password changes, identity profile updates, and reporting. The drivers are designed specifically for a business application or a technology application and offers the quickest integration method. The drivers use the APIs that the applications provide to determine application data changes and effect application data changes. You can further modify the drivers to meet your unique requirements by using Designer. Depending on the load, network topology and network security requirements of your environment, one or more drivers may be deployed. The drivers can be co-located with the Identity Manager server or distributed on remote computers.
Identity Manager also integrates with custom-developed applications through common application protocol drivers such as JDBC, JMS, LDAP and SOAP. If you have a custom application, you can develop a custom driver to support provisioning to your application.