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[[Interoperability]] was demonstrated in October, 2011, at the Cloud Identity Summit, an [[Identity management|IAM]] industry conference. There, user accounts were provisioned and de-provisioned across separate systems using SCIM standards, by a collection of [[Identity management system|IdM software]] vendors: [[Okta (identity management)|Okta]], [[CyberArk]], [[Ping Identity]], [[SailPoint]], [[Technology Nexus]] and [[UnboundID]].<ref name="SailPoint" /> In March 2012, at IETF 83 in Paris, [[interoperability]] tests continued by the same vendors, joined by [[Salesforce.com]], BCPSoft, [[WSO2]], Gluu, and Courion (now [[SecureAuth]]) nine companies in total.<ref>{{cite web | title = Logistics and attendee info for the March 2012 SCIM interop event | website = SCIM, Simple Cloud Identity Management | date = April 26, 2012 | url = https://code.google.com/p/scim/wiki/FirstInteropEvent | accessdate = May 11, 2015}}</ref>

SCIM is the second standard for exchanging user data, but it builds on prior standards (e.g. [[Service Provisioning Markup Language|SPML]], [[Portable Contacts|PortableContacts]], [[vCard]]s, and [[LDAP Data Interchange Format|LDAP directory services]]) in an attempt to be a simpler and more widely adopted solution for cloud services providers.<ref name="Ping-SCIM">{{cite web| title = SCIM: How It Works| website = PingIdentity.com| url = https://www.pingidentity.com/en/resources/client-library/articles/scim.html| format = Article| accessdate = July 28, 2020}}</ref><ref name="SCIM-19-intro">{{cite book | author= Internet Engineering Task Force, Network Working Group | title = System for Cross-Domain Identity Management: Core Schema | version = RFC7643 | date = September 2015 | section = Section 1, Introduction | url = https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7643#section-1 | accessdate = 2023-05-19}}</ref>

The SCIM standard is growing in popularity and has been adopted by numerous identity providers as well as applications. As adoption of the standard grows, so do the number of tools available. The standard leverages a number of open-source libraries<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/identity-standards-blog/provisioning-with-scim-design-build-and-test-your-scim-endpoint/ba-p/1204883|title = Provisioning with SCIM – design, build, and test your SCIM endpoint|date = 2 March 2020}}</ref> to facilitate development and testing frameworks<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/AzureAD/SCIMReferenceCode/wiki/Test-Your-SCIM-Endpoint|title = Test Your SCIM Endpoint · AzureAD/SCIMReferenceCode Wiki|website = [[GitHub]]}}</ref> ensure that endpoint's compliance with the SCIM standard.