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The three TIER components were already a key part of our identity management system. Lafayette joined the InCommon Federation in 2007 and we were an early adopter of Shibboleth, running a local Identity Provider at our small liberal arts college. Recently, we became heavy users of Grouper and worked with Spherical Cow Group to add features to COmanage to support our use case for provisioning accounts and identity lifecycle management for affiliates of the College. Still, this all didn’t mean that there were no operational gaps needing to be addressed.
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