SCIM
SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is an open standard for creating, updating and removing user accounts and groups in an application automatically, driven by the identity provider. Microsoft describes it as standardizing automatic user provisioning.
Why it matters for companies
SSO controls how people sign in. SCIM controls who has an account in the first place and which groups they belong to, so group membership in the directory decides who may use which AI tool.
Provisioning by standard replaces manual invitations and spreadsheets of who has access.
Example
IT creates the group "Engineering AI" in Microsoft Entra ID and assigns it to the AI gateway. People added to the group are provisioned automatically, and people moved out of it are removed from the application.
How Standard Compute handles it
Employees sign in to Claude Desktop and Claude Code with their Microsoft work account, through our EU gateway, so there are no API keys to hand out. Access follows your Microsoft Entra groups through SCIM provisioning.
Related pages
- Sign in to Claude with a Microsoft work account
- SSO for AI tools
- SSO, SAML and Microsoft Entra for AI tools
- Enterprise AI glossary