The Azure AD platform is integrated with IDMWORKS IdentityForge (IDF) Gateway for user life cycle management for Mainframe systems (RACF, Top Secret, ACF2), Midrange system (AS400), Healthcare applications (EPIC/Cerner), Linux/Unix servers, Databases, and dozens of on-prem and cloud applications. IdentityForge provides a central, standardized integration engine and modern identity store that serves as a trusted source for all life-cycle management.

The IDF Gateway for Azure AD provides lifecycle management for import sources and provisioning target systems that are not covered by the Azure AD connector portfolio like Mainframe systems (RACF, Top Secret, ACF2) or Healthcare applications (EPIC/Cerner). The IDF Gateway powers Azure AD identity lifecycle management (LCM) to continuously synchronize user account information from Mainframe/Healthcare sources and to automate the account provisioning lifecycle use cases like create, read (import), update, deactivate, delete user accounts and perform group management.

The IDF Gateway is a lightweight JAVA application that can be installed on a Linux/Windows server and can manage hundreds of thousands (even millions) of identities. It has an inbuilt replication setup for high availability. The IDF Gateway can be installed on-premises along with the Azure AD connect provisioning bridge. The IDF Gateway side setup is easy and includes SCIM/LDAP configuration along with configuring a connector (few lines on property configs) for the target system. The Azure AD side will include mapping the attributes exposed by the IDF Gateway to the Azure AD profile.