Provisioning

As a process of care or provisioning process, a process is referred to, which is necessary to equip a user of an IT system with the basic conditions for its activity.

Examples

The following processes are exemplary care processes:

• Entry in the Systems of the Human Resources Department, the Personnel System
• User name
• Password
• E -mail Account
• Access to application software (such as accounting systems, inventory management, etc.)
• Access to buildings (by access card )
• Phone number entry in the telephone system
• Parking
• Office supplies
• Etc.

It is primarily IT driven processes meant to be supplemented by non- IT processes but. These processes usually exist already as dockets, but standardization and computerization of processes are displayed electronically in the frame.

The technical term care or provisioning process is used primarily in the context of identity management, meta- directories that are often added to workflows to accelerate and automate user management, but also in the mobile industry.

Failure to supply process and de - provisioning refers to the reverse process, which is used, inter alia, to the fact that for security reasons users no longer have access to systems that they need not (any longer ) because they, for example, to another location in the companies have changed. In order to map these complex processes, role concepts are often used instead of directly award rights.

See for example: SAP Software Provisioning

• Economic computer science