The Avatier Lifecycle & Access Governance framework — five pillars: Group & User Self-Service, Group Automation, HR User Provisioning, IT Shopping Cart, and Access Governance, beneath a central identity shield.

Avatier Lifecycle & Access Governance

The 5 Pillars of Directory Native Lifecycle Governance

Automate every identity event from hire to retire, on the Avatier Identity Anywhere platform.

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How It Works

How Lifecycle & Access Governance Works — The 5 Pillars

Five pillars, one identity lifecycle. Each governs a different moment where access is granted, changed, reviewed, or removed.

  1. Pillar 01
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    One in four help-desk tickets is the same request.

    I need access to an app.

    With Avatier Group and User Self-Service, it becomes a group request.

    IT connects each app to a group once.

    Then the business requests, approves, and tracks access on its own.

    Join the group, open the app.

    Ask from Teams, Outlook, Slack, or the web.

    The owner approves from a push notification.

    The apps appear in My Apps with single sign-on, and every step is logged.

    IT sets the guardrails once.

    Then it's self-service that cleans up after itself.

    Approval chains, expiration by design, named owners, a redundancy blocker, and patent-pending Continuous Governance.

    Is this for you?

    It's built for the buying committee.

    Finance, IT, security, and the help desk, each with its own payoff.

    Give the business self-service, and keep IT in control.

    Avatier Group and User Self-Service.

    Group & User Self-Service

    Lets business users and managers handle group and account tasks themselves — with approvals, zero-trust, and full audit built in.

    Explore Group & User Self-Service
  2. Pillar 02
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    Group membership is where access quietly goes wrong.

    People change roles, and keep their old groups.

    Avatier Group Automation keeps your security groups and distribution lists accurate, straight from your HR data.

    Title, department, location, and manager become the rules.

    When someone is hired, moved, or leaves, their groups follow.

    Business owners build each rule in a wizard, with no scripting.

    Test it against live data to see exactly who gets added or removed.

    Then it runs on your schedule: daily, weekly, or monthly.

    Is this for you?

    Large Active Directory estates, regulated industries, mergers and reorgs, HR-driven enterprises, and teams with audit findings to fix.

    Once it's running, patent-pending Continuous Governance keeps watching.

    It flags unauthorized members, removes access that no longer fits, and restores what each role requires.

    You've automated the accounts.

    Now govern the groups.

    Avatier Group Automation.

    Group Automation

    Eliminates manual group management by enforcing membership from your authoritative HR data automatically.

    Explore Group Automation
  3. Pillar 03
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    Every employee has three moments IT has to get right.

    The day they're hired, the day they move, and the day they leave.

    Avatier HR User Provisioning connects to your HR system and turns every HR event into an automated identity workflow.

    The moment HR updates a record, access follows.

    For a new hire, it creates the username, email, and home directory, assigns roles and Microsoft 365 licenses, and grants first-day access without assigning a password.

    When they move, it applies the new role's access and removes what no longer fits.

    Patent-pending Continuous Governance keeps it right.

    And the moment HR marks them terminated, every account is disabled.

    Is this for you?

    It's built for seasonal hiring, growing teams, regulated industries, and mergers or reorganizations.

    Your HR data becomes the single source of truth for access, from hire to retire.

    Avatier HR User Provisioning.

    HR User Provisioning

    Every HR event, from hire to retire, becomes an automated, zero-trust identity workflow across AD, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, and every connected app.

    Explore HR User Provisioning
  4. Pillar 04
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    In most organizations, getting access is a mystery.

    People don't know what to ask for, or how, and requests disappear into ticket queues.

    Avatier IT Shopping Cart turns access requests into a familiar store.

    Applications, cloud resources, laptops, and licenses, all in one catalog.

    Add what you need from any system to one cart, and check out once.

    Each item is routed to the manager and security approvers your policies require.

    And the approver sees what they're granting: how old it is, whether it's in use, its SLA, and its risk.

    Once approved, it's provisioned automatically, with no ticket.

    Is this for you?

    It is if you onboard at scale, support people anywhere, fight over-provisioning, answer to auditors, or run dozens of cloud platforms.

    Make access as easy as checkout, and as governed as ever.

    Avatier IT Shopping Cart.

    IT Shopping Cart

    Turns enterprise access requests into a familiar store — with automated approvals, HR-driven provisioning, and risk-aware intelligence built in.

    Explore IT Shopping Cart
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    Access reviews are where compliance goes to die.

    Spreadsheets, slow campaigns, and evidence that's stale before it's filed.

    Avatier Access Governance turns slow, manual access reviews into automated, audit-ready certification across every system.

    It snapshots who has access to what, and routes each review to the right owner.

    Each cycle reviews only what changed.

    Reviewers certify in Teams, Slack, ServiceNow, or Outlook, and approve or revoke in a click.

    Behind every decision, the Compliance Manager flags risk, supports multi-level approvals, and captures evidence.

    So it's audit-ready, on demand.

    Is this for you?

    Regulated industries, audit remediation, contractor access, reorganizations, and cloud-first enterprises.

    Between campaigns, patent-pending Continuous Governance keeps access aligned to role.

    You've automated the access.

    Now govern and prove it.

    Avatier Access Governance.

    Access Governance

    Turns slow, manual access reviews into automated, audit-ready certification across every system.

    Explore Access Governance

Outcomes

What the Platform Delivers

  • Every HR event, from hire to retire, turned into an automated identity workflow
  • Users onboarded quickly, permissioned correctly, and deprovisioned the moment they leave
  • Access creep prevented and least privilege enforced automatically
  • Continuous audit trails aligned with SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and zero trust
  • 34 languages, 24 x 365 always-on identity verification
  • Any MFA: deviceless authentications, OTP, TOTP, FIDO2, hardware security key, and biometric
Full Comparison

Script-Based IAM vs the Avatier Identity Anywhere Platform

 Script-Based IAMAvatier Identity Anywhere
CredentialsCredential exposure in scriptsEverything runs inside a governed, policy-enforced platform
ConnectorsFragile connectors and scripts that break when a vendor changes an APIOne unified integration to 70+ HR and payroll systems
FailuresSilent failures and missing audit trailsEvery action logged and policy-enforced
KnowledgeTribal-knowledge dependenciesPoint-and-click configuration with a visual workflow engine

Any Cloud or Business Application

Microsoft, 70+ HR and payroll systems, MFA providers, and the cloud apps and legacy systems where your accounts live.

  • Microsoft
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Workday
  • SAP
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Okta
  • Duo Security
  • PingID
  • Google Authenticator
  • CyberArk
  • RSA SecurID
  • Active Directory
  • Oracle
  • ADP
  • Fortinet
  • YubiKey
  • FIDO2
Got Questions?

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Avatier Lifecycle & Access Governance, answered.

What are the 5 pillars of lifecycle management and access governance?

Group & User Self-Service, Group Automation, HR User Provisioning, IT Shopping Cart, and Access Governance. All five run on the Avatier Identity Anywhere platform.

What is the Avatier Identity Anywhere platform?

A private cloud instance, isolated by design, that includes Enterprise Password Management, User Lifecycle Management, Access Governance, User & Group Self-Service, Single Sign-On, and Passwordless Windows Login.

Which languages does identity verification support?

34 languages, through a 24 x 365 always-on identity verification layer.

Which MFA methods and providers are supported?

Deviceless authentications, OTP, TOTP, FIDO2, hardware security key, and biometric, with providers including Microsoft Auth, Okta MFA, Duo Security, PingID MFA, Google Auth, CyberArk, RSA SecurID, Fortinet MFA, YubiKey, and PassKey.

What does HR User Provisioning do?

After connecting directly to your HR system, Avatier turns every HR event, including hire, transfer, promotion, leave, layoff, rename, rehire, or termination, into an automated identity workflow.

How fast can Avatier get us live with HR-driven provisioning?

Most customers go live in days to weeks. Avatier provides a Quick-Start Guide, a dedicated onboarding team, and point-and-click configuration, dramatically shortening deployment time.

Is Avatier secure enough for large enterprises or regulated industries?

Absolutely. Avatier applies zero-trust controls, maintains fully auditable identity records, and holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications. It also helps organizations support requirements and evidence needs associated with NIST, SOX, HIPAA, and GDPR. Every provisioning action is policy-enforced and auditable.

Executive Briefing

Download the Lifecycle Management Briefing Pack

Three PDFs for the team evaluating Lifecycle Management: the product brochure, the full feature matrix, and a ten-step guide to preparing an access management project.

  • Brochure

    Lifecycle Management as a Docker Container

    Avatier Lifecycle Docker container cloud-Independent solution brings employees, partners and customers applications, cloud services, assets and even e-signature forms together to manage them as one system.

    Download PDFPDF · 3.0 MB · 4 pages
  • Feature matrix

    Lifecycle Management Feature Matrix

    Key features, user interface, provisioning, reports, risk intelligence, workflows, HR feeds and connectors, item by item.

    Download PDFPDF · 168 KB · 18 pages
  • Best practices guide

    Top 10 Access Management Best Practices

    The proven working guide for successful implementations.

    Download PDFPDF · 346 KB · 8 pages

You've Automated the System. Now Secure the Lifecycle.

Automation can solve most IT tasks, but identity lifecycle management remains a critical, manual risk.