PROVIDING AND MANAGING AN ADAPTER AS A SERVICE (AaaS) BROKERING SERVICE

A system for managing an adapter as a service (AaaS) in a computing environment, comprising:

• one or more computers with executable instructions that when executed cause the system to:
• provide accesses to one or more of a plurality of identity and access management (IAM) systems via an adapter as a service (AaaS) functioning as an exchange service between one or more users and one or more providers of a plurality of types of adapters, wherein the plurality of types of adapters in the AaaS enable provisioning and de-provisioning of user accounts of the one or more users to one or more applications associated with the plurality of IAM systems such that the AaaS acts as a brokering service to configure the plurality of types of adapters as required by the one or more providers to access the one or more applications corresponding thereto.

A computer program product for, by a processor, managing an adapter as a service (AaaS) in a computing environment, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

• an executable portion that provides accesses to one or more of a plurality of identity and access management (IAM) systems via an adapter as a service (AaaS) functioning as an exchange service between one or more users and one or more providers of a plurality of types of adapters, wherein the plurality of types of adapters in the AaaS enable provisioning and de-provisioning of user accounts of the one or more users to one or more applications associated with the plurality of IAM systems such that the AaaS acts as a brokering service to configure the plurality of types of adapters as required by the one or more providers to access the one or more applications corresponding thereto.