The SCIM specification is designed to make managing user identities in cloud-based applications and services easy, fast, and inexpensive.
SCIM provides the following features:
It aims to reduce the cost and complexity of user management operations by providing a common user schema and extension model. It also binds documents to provide patterns for exchanging this schema by using standard protocols.
For more information, see the SCIM website at http://www.simplecloud.info/.