Okta, Inc.
Flexible implementation of user lifecycle events for applications of an enterprise

Abstract:

Users of organizations use many different third-party applications. The organizations use the services of a server to manage and interact with the third-party applications. In particular, the server provides a user lifecycle API that defines a set of user lifecycle events corresponding to changes of the users with respect to their organizations and/or the third-party applications that they use within the organizations. The server further has access to lifecycle code modules corresponding to the different third-party applications and defining how those third-party applications will respond to the user lifecycle events. When a user lifecycle event occurs for a particular user of a particular organization, the server determines the third-party applications to which the organization has given the user access uses the appropriate functionality of the lifecycle code modules of the corresponding third-party applications to implement the appropriate user changes for those applications.