Mycroft

The delivery of provisioning systems into production environments requires the development of custom connectors that incorporate home grown, or non-typical, application targets.  Specifically, legacy and “one-off” applications may need to be incorporated at customer sites to deliver a complete audit picture, or to address a complete set of regulatory requirements. 

The common approach to connector development has always been to develop one connector per target system, and to base that connector on the available communication paths to that application (API, standard protocol, standard data repository).

Mycroft, on the other hand, has developed a set of connectors driven not by the specific applications target(s), but by a common set of authentication and authorization material that are shared across applications.  The idea is to group applications based on their authentication and authorization repositories.  Thus, connectors can be built in a one-to-many applications approach, yielding an ability to provision viable user accounts to many systems, through a single connector.