The enterprise identity role architecture allows for the development of an identity model that establishes a user’s relationship to the organization and the potential business purpose for accessing resources. The manner in which a user (employee, customer or partner) is defined is leveraged from the existing characteristics in the authoritative source.

The benefits of this component are:

• Increased consistency and quality of user definition
• Increased security from applying common business purposes
• Streamlined policy definitions
• Increased centralized ability to audit user access