User Provisioning & SCIM Guides

Understand user lifecycle management, including provisioning, de-provisioning, and how SCIM helps automate these processes.

The developer’s guide to Directory Sync and SCIM

Learn what SCIM is, why you should care, and how to build it into your app using WorkOS Directory Sync.

Every SCIM attribute explained

In this article, you’ll learn more about attributes, including how the key attributes work, and how you can use custom attributes to deliver additional functionality.

What is Just-In-Time Provisioning and how do you use it?

We’ll explain what JIT is, how it compares to other user provisioning strategies, why you should consider supporting it and how you can implement it.

What are SCIM groups?

Learn how SCIM groups automate access management, reducing compatibility issues across platforms in enterprise environments.

SCIM vs JIT: Key differences explained

Exploring the differences between JIT and SCIM, how they function, and how to choose which one to support.

SCIM 2.0 vs SCIM 1.0: What’s the difference between the two versions?

Exploring the differences between SCIM 2.0 and SCIM 1.0, and what's new in the latest version of the protocol

Unlocking the power of SCIM: streamlining enterprise user management

Learn what SCIM stands for, how it simplifies provisioning and access control, and why you should support it.

SCIM vs SSO: What's the difference and how do they work together?

SCIM vs SSO: Learn the differences between SCIM and SSO and how they work together in identity and access management.

Implementation challenges of a homegrown SCIM solution

SCIM provisioning is an important enterprise feature that provides user lifecycle management (ULM) and automated access control. Building this in-house means you must deal with fragmentation issues across onboarding, implementation, and triage, incurring significant engineering cost, delayed time to market, and potential security issues.

What is user provisioning?

A comprehensive guide to managing user access across your organization.

SCIM: What it is and how it works

What is SCIM, and why do you need to support it in your SaaS? We’ll discuss the SCIM standard in-depth, how it works, and how you can add SCIM support to your app.

SCIM best practices

User provisioning is hard, and there are many things you can get wrong if you do it in-house. We gathered some best practices on SCIM to help you with that.

How SCIM provisioning works

SCIM is a widely used protocol, but not many people understand it. This straightforward and comprehensive guide steps through how it works, using real-world examples and API calls and responses.

Implementing a generic SCIM client

If you’ve built a custom Identity Provider, you’ll need to implement SCIM client functionality yourself. This guide shows you how to build a standards-compliant SCIM 2.0 client that can provision users and groups using WorkOS as the SCIM service provider.