Installation guide

20 Identity Manager 4.0.1 Framework Installation Guide
2.2.3 Designing an Enterprise Data Model
After your business processes have been defined, you can use Designer to begin to design a data
model that reflects your current business processes.
The model in Designer illustrates where data originates, where it moves to, and where it can’t move.
It can also account for how critical events affect the data flow. For example, Figure 2-2 shows data
flow between Identity Vault and different connected systems.
Figure 2-2 Data Flow through Designer
You might also want to develop a diagram that illustrates the proposed business process and the
advantages of implementing automated provisioning in that process.
The development of this model begins by answering questions such as the following:
 What types of objects (users, groups, etc.) are being moved?
 Which events are of interest?
 Which attributes need to be synchronized?
 What data is stored throughout your business for the various types of objects being managed?