US Patent 7912930 System and method for resource provisioning

Systems and methods for resource provisioning. Resources for which provisioning could be performed might include, for example, software, devices, directories, and/or databases. Where performance of an operation involved in provisioning requires interface with a resource, various operations might be performed to achieve such interface. The operations involved in a particular provisioning procedure could, for example, be defined by a system administrator and/or other user. Provisioning procedure execution might be monitored and/or affected. Further, such execution might be checked for compliance with one or more established business rules.