90% less manual management
Onboarding, role changes, and offboarding proceed automatically. IT teams spend less time on tickets, remediation, and checks.
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Automate your organisation's joiner, mover and leaver processes. Fully audit-ready and seamlessly integrated with HR, ITSM, Microsoft and your IT landscape.
What is identity lifecycle management?
Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM) is the fully automated management of user accounts throughout an employee's entire lifecycle: from onboarding to job changes and offboarding.
Based on HR data, accounts, access rights, licences and application access are automatically created, modified or removed. Without manual actions from IT.
This ensures employees always get the right access at the right time, while organisations maintain control over security, compliance and audit requirements.
Direct correct access rights
Employees receive exactly the right access rights from day one. Changes and terminations are processed automatically, without privilege stacking.
Faster onboarding and higher productivity
New employees can start immediately with the correct accounts, licenses, and applications. No waiting times, no separate manual actions.
Always audit-ready and fewer security risks
All lifecycle actions are fully logged and immediately demonstrable. This reduces the likelihood of incidents and significantly speeds up audits.
The three phases of the lifecycle
Whether someone starts, changes roles, or leaves: Joinly automatically translates HR changes into the correct accounts, permissions, and actions in Microsoft Entra, applications, and ITSM. This ensures that access is always correct and audit-ready.
- Intake
- New employees must be able to work from day one. Joinly transforms onboarding into an automated onboarding process: account set up, access granted, workplace ready.
- Internal mobility
- Functions change, departments shift, projects start and stop. Joinly ensures that access automatically adjusts. Without accumulating permissions.
- Offboarding
- Upon departure, you want speed and control: access immediately closed, data secured, licenses recovered. With proof for audit.
Manual access management holds organisations back
When lifecycle processes depend on tickets, Excel, and isolated actions, HR changes fall out of sync, rights accumulate, and compliance consumes unnecessary time.
HR and IT are not synchronised
Changes in HR often reach IT too late or not at all, causing accounts and permissions to no longer reflect reality, resulting in incorrect access that has to be manually corrected.
Rights accumulate
When employees receive new access without removing old rights, permissions accumulate, leading to an increasing risk of data breaches, misuse, and loss of control over security and compliance.
Audits take unnecessarily too much time
Without central logging and automated processes, it is difficult to demonstrate who had access when, causing audits to require weeks of manual investigation and unnecessarily increasing the pressure on IT and compliance.
Automate identity lifecycle management with Joinly
With Joinly, you manage the entire lifecycle of user identities from a single central source: HR.
Changes in employee data are automatically translated into the correct accounts, rights, and actions in Microsoft Entra or Active Directory, applications, and IT processes. Secure, demonstrable, and without manual work.
This shifts access management from individual actions to a predictable, automated process that grows with your organisation.
HR as the sole source
Joinly uses HR data as a starting point for all lifecycle actions, allowing onboarding, transfer, and offboarding to be processed immediately without double entry.
With support for systems like AFAS, Nmbrs, Visma, and Dayforce, identities remain up-to-date in real-time, significantly reducing manual management.
Automatic provisioning
HR changes are automatically translated to accounts, rights, and licenses in Microsoft Entra, Microsoft 365, applications, and ITSM. This ensures employees are immediately operational and access remains consistent across all systems.
Governance & compliance
All lifecycle actions are fully logged and support compliance requirements such as NIS2 and ISO27001. With least-privilege access and periodic access reviews, you maintain continuous control over security and audit.
Who is Identity Lifecycle Management intended for?
Identity Lifecycle Management with Joinly is designed for organisations that want control over access, security, and compliance, without the complexity of traditional IAM solutions.
IT managers
For IT teams that want to automate onboarding, changes, and offboarding while keeping full control over accounts, rights, and licenses. Less manual work, fewer errors, and an IT environment that immediately aligns with HR changes.
HR
For teams wanting to use HR data as a reliable source for identity and access management. Joinly ensures that changes in employment, position, or department automatically update IT systems without duplicate entries or separate tickets.
Security & compliance specialists
For organisations that need to comply with standards such as NIS2 and ISO 27001, and require continuous insight into who has access to which systems. With audit logging, least-privilege, and access reviews, demonstrable compliance becomes part of the daily process.
MSPs and IT service providers
For service providers who want to make lifecycle management scalable and manageable for multiple customers. With central automation, standardized workflows, and insight into access per tenant, identity management becomes predictable and profitable.
What lifecycle automation delivers
Make your IAM environment immediately more efficient, secure, and audit-ready, without adding extra complexity for IT.
90% less manual management
Onboarding, role changes, and offboarding proceed automatically. IT teams spend less time on tickets, remediation, and checks.
Direct correct access rights
Employees receive exactly the right access rights from day one. Changes and terminations are processed automatically, without privilege stacking.
Faster onboarding and higher productivity
New employees can start immediately with the correct accounts, licenses, and applications. No waiting times, no separate manual actions.
Always audit-ready and fewer security risks
All lifecycle actions are fully logged and immediately demonstrable. This reduces the likelihood of incidents and significantly speeds up audits.
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Frequently asked questions
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Frequently Asked Questions about Lifecycle Management
1. What is Identity Lifecycle Management?
Identity Lifecycle Management is the automated management of user accounts and access rights throughout the entire lifecycle of an employee: from hiring and role changes to termination. Based on HR data, accounts, rights, and licenses are automatically created, adjusted, or removed.
2. Why is Identity Lifecycle Management important?
Without lifecycle automation, outdated accounts, incorrect rights, and manual remediation often arise. This increases security risks, complicates audits, and consumes a lot of IT team time. Lifecycle Management ensures correct access, less management, and demonstrable compliance.
3. How does Identity Lifecycle Management work with Joinly?
Joinly uses HR as the source of truth for identities and access management. Changes in HR automatically initiate workflows that create or modify accounts in Microsoft Entra ID, assign permissions to applications, and fully log all actions for auditing and compliance purposes. When HR is not the source or immediate action is required, employees can also be manually created or offboarded in Joinly, for instance via the clear red/green-button operation for direct lifecycle actions.
4. Which HR systems can Joinly integrate with?
Joinly supports, among others, AFAS, Nmbrs, Visma, and Dayforce, and can also integrate with other HR systems via API integrations. This directly links lifecycle automation to existing HR processes.
5. Does Joinly support Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365?
Yes. Joinly automates provisioning, group memberships, licences, and access rights within Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, and optionally Active Directory. This creates a fully automated identity process within the Microsoft ecosystem.
6. Can other applications also be integrated automatically?
Yes. Joinly supports provisioning via SCIM, API integrations, and ITSM workflows. This allows SaaS applications and internal systems to be automatically granted the correct access.
7. How does Identity Lifecycle Management assist with NIS2 and ISO27001?
Lifecycle automation ensures demonstrable access control, complete audit logging, timely offboarding, and least-privilege access. This supports organisations in meeting NIS2, ISO27001, and other compliance requirements.
8. How much manual management can be saved?
Organizations often save up to 90% on manual user and access management, as onboarding, changes, and offboarding are fully automated based on HR data.
9. Is Joinly a replacement for traditional IAM solutions?
Joinly offers a modern, HR-driven alternative to complex and expensive enterprise IAM implementations. The focus is on rapid lifecycle automation, simpler management, and immediate compliance instead of lengthy governance projects.
10. For which organisations is Identity Lifecycle Management suitable?
For organisations that use Microsoft Entra ID, experience growth in employees or applications, have compliance requirements, and wish to replace manual access management with automation. This applies to companies, healthcare and educational institutions, as well as MSPs.
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