Delegated administration
How It Works: UNIFYElevate Integration
A practical look at how UNIFYElevate fits into existing IT environments to support delegated user and access management.
Purpose and audience
UNIFYElevate adds a governed delegation layer to existing identity environments.
This page explains how UNIFYElevate integrates with existing IT environments to support secure, scalable, and efficient user and access management.
It is written for IT decision-makers, system architects, security professionals, and service owners who need to understand the integration model before delegating access operations.
Fits existing environments
UNIFYElevate is designed to integrate with existing identity, application, network, and authentication services rather than replace them wholesale.
Controls delegated access
Service owners can delegate administration while keeping role scope, permission boundaries, and lifecycle rules centrally governed.
Scales with evidence
The architecture supports larger operating models while retaining records that help with support, audit, and compliance activities.
Business context
Delegation becomes difficult when multiple organizations share responsibility for access.
Many services rely on partner, workforce, citizen, or customer administrators who understand the local user context. UNIFYElevate gives those administrators a controlled way to manage access while the service owner keeps central oversight.Delegation
Trusted partner or business administrators can manage their own users’ access within approved limits.
Security
Authentication and authorization remain governed, helping ensure users receive only the access they need.
Compliance
Central oversight and decentralized action create clearer evidence for audit, reporting, and operational review.
Architecture overview
The high-level architecture separates identity, access, delegation, and application delivery.
This reference view shows how UNIFYElevate can sit alongside existing identity and application services. The exact design can be adapted to the organization’s environment, integration points, and assurance requirements.
External identity platform
Azure AD B2C or Microsoft Entra External ID manages external user identities, depending on the environment and target platform.
UNIFYElevate
UNIFYElevate provides the delegated administration layer for users, organizations, applications, roles, and access assignments.
Azure Front Door
Azure Front Door provides secure and scalable access to the services exposed through the solution.
Authentication sources
OIDC and SAML sources support workforce, social, government, or mixed authentication patterns.
Integration scenarios
The core scenarios are authentication, authorization, and delegated administration.
UNIFYElevate does not need every access process to return to a central identity team. It gives approved administrators scoped actions while keeping the identity and access model governed.- Authenticate users Users sign in through supported identity providers and security controls.
- Apply roles and permissions Applications receive access decisions based on governed role and permission assignments.
- Delegate administration Approved administrators manage users and access inside the scope assigned by the service owner.
User authentication
Support SSO and multi-factor authentication patterns across the identity sources needed by the service.
User authorization
Use role-based access control to define and apply the permissions users need for each application context.
Delegated administration
Allow approved administrators to manage users and access independently without shifting full platform control away from the service owner.
Technical architecture
The technical model is designed for secure integration and operational scale.
UNIFYElevate is hosted on Azure and uses defined integration boundaries, encrypted communication, monitoring, and repeatable operational controls to support secure delegated access management.
Cloud-native infrastructure
UNIFYElevate is hosted on Azure and uses cloud-native services for reliability, availability, and operational scale.
Defined data flows
Information moves between components through defined APIs, with security controls applied across integration boundaries.
Security by design
Encryption, monitoring, and compliance processes support secure operation across the delegated access model.
Operations
The operating model has to be reliable, scalable, and supportable.
Delegated administration is only useful if the platform remains available, grows with demand, and can be maintained without introducing unmanaged risk.High availability
The architecture uses redundant services and failover patterns to support high availability requirements.
Scalability
The platform can scale horizontally as user, organization, and application volumes grow.
Maintenance and support
UNIFY managed services can keep the deployment current, secure, and aligned with operational needs.
Standards and compliance
Governance and standards are part of the integration design.
UNIFYElevate supports compliance with organizational standards, security expectations, and privacy obligations by combining configurable controls with standards-based identity integration.Regulatory alignment
The platform can be configured to support organizational, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
Identity standards
OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and related standards support secure and interoperable identity management.
Audit evidence
Delegated actions can be retained as operating evidence for reporting, support, assurance, and review.
Further questions