Outsourced Service Provider Provisioning. Many hosted and outsourced service providers need to be provided with information about the universe of employees or human resources that they will manage or for which they will provide related services. This involves providing the service provider with an initial build of organizational, position, and human resource data and often involves the communication of updates as business and life events change data provided in the initial build.

Hire. A "hire event" coincides with the point in time at which a person who has been a candidate becomes associated with an employer as an employee. Sometimes systems are pre-provisioned with information about an individual after he or she has accepted the offer, but before the employee enters-on-duty.

Employee Promotion or Position Transfer. The promotion or transfer of an employee to a new position obviously triggers a variety of associated changes (reporting relationships, pay and benefit changes, work location changes, etc.).