Flexible implementation of user lifecycle events for applications of an enterprise

A computer-implemented method of a server, the method comprising:

• storing a user lifecycle application programming interface (API) that declares but does not define a plurality of user lifecycle functions for accessing data of users of third-party applications, the user lifecycle API implemented as an interface of a programming language;
• storing a plurality of lifecycle code modules corresponding to the plurality of third-party applications and including code providing third-party application-specific implementations of each of the user lifecycle functions of the interface, each of the third-party applications having a corresponding lifecycle code module, the code of a first one of the lifecycle code modules differing from the code of a second, different one of the lifecycle code modules;
• identifying an occurrence of a user lifecycle event;
• identifying a first user of an organization associated with the user lifecycle event;
• mapping the user lifecycle event to a function of the user lifecycle API associated with the user lifecycle event;
• identifying, as a subset of the third-party applications, third-party applications to which the organization has granted the first user access;
• and
• for each third-party application of the identified subset:
• identifying the lifecycle code module corresponding to the third-party application, and
• calling code of the identified lifecycle code module that implements the mapped function, thereby making a change to data of the user in the third-party application, the data of the user in the third-party application being stored in a database of the third-party application that is remote from the server.