Partner access that ends when it should
Vendors, suppliers, distributors, and affiliates aren't in your HCM system, so your operations team manages them by hand, sponsors touch accounts directly, and orphaned identities accumulate undetected. Aquera B2B Partner IAM is the authoritative System of Record for partner users: every account owned, sponsored, validated, and delegated to the partner's own admins.
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Every partner account owned, validated, and governed
Managing partners is harder than it looks
Policy may forbid sponsors from touching accounts directly, yet someone has to manage them. Onboarding, offboarding, and communications for every individual partner user land on the operations team, and without structured reviews, orphaned accounts accumulate undetected. 63% of data breaches involve third parties (IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023), so every orphaned partner account is standing risk.
B2B Partner IAM Solution Brief
Partner SoR, delegated administration, sponsor model, revalidation, and the full comparison, learn more now.
From sponsorship to system of record
Aquera captures the engagement, delegates user management to the partner, and revalidates every account on event, on schedule, or on lack of use, so every identity is owned and nothing is orphaned.
Validate the engagement with internal sponsors
The host admin creates the partner organization, sets up the internal sponsor, and configures risk profiles, the sponsor requests and approves access, never touching directory accounts directly.
- Risk profiles. Per-partner risk level, validation questions, and schedule.
- Sponsor-owned lifecycle. Sponsors approve access and drive revalidation.
- Separation of duties. Sponsors govern; partners administer.
Push user management to the partner
Tiered delegation moves user management to the partner, via the partner's own identity provider or Aquera's delegated-admin web UI, with bulk operations and self-service onboarding, so no tickets reach the host operations team.
- Any-IDP partners. Federate with the partner's existing identity provider.
- No-IDP partners. Delegated-admin web UI with bulk and self-service operations.
- Single-user partners. Administered by the internal sponsor.
Revalidate every account and source clean identities
Sponsors and delegated admins review on event, schedule, or lack of use, and clean, validated identities source to Entra ID, Okta, IDP, and IGA.
- Risk-based schedules. Frequency and risk scale per partner.
- Lack-of-use detection. Stale accounts flagged before they become risk.
- Clean identity sourcing. Validated identities flow to the central directory.
A real System of Record, not just a directory attribute
Authoritative Partner SoR
Every partner user carries an owner, a sponsor, a risk profile, and a validation state, not a directory attribute that no one owns.
Multi-Tier Delegation
Hierarchical delegated administration pushes user management to the partner, via the partner's own IDP or Aquera's web UI, with bulk operations and self-service onboarding.
Nothing Orphaned
Lack-of-use detection and central usage monitoring surface stale accounts before they become risk, and trigger revalidation automatically.
See B2B Partner IAM in Action
A 30-minute working session mapped to your partner and B2B access model, scoped to the systems you actually run.
From directory-only management to a governed Partner SoR
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Frequently asked questions
What is Aquera B2B Partner IAM? +
Aquera B2B Partner IAM gives host organizations an authoritative System of Record for partner users, vendors, suppliers, distributors, affiliates, and contingent workers. Sponsors create and validate partner engagements, partner admins and delegated admins onboard and manage their own users, and clean, validated identities flow to the organization's IDP, IGA, and central directory.
What capabilities define Aquera B2B Partner IAM? +
Aquera B2B Partner IAM delivers enterprise-scale partner identity management built on four pillars: multi-tier delegated administration, sponsor-driven validation, risk-based revalidation, and central operational visibility.
What is a Partner User System of Record? +
A Partner User System of Record is the authoritative source of identity for every external partner user a host organization works with. Each partner user record carries an owner, an internal sponsor, a risk profile, and a validation state.
What types of external users does it manage? +
Aquera B2B Partner IAM manages every type of external partner user: vendors, suppliers, distributors, affiliates, and contingent workers. Each one lives in an authoritative Partner User System of Record with an owner, a sponsor, a risk profile, and a validation state.
What is delegated administration in partner identity management? +
Delegated administration pushes partner user management out of IT and operations and into the partner organization itself. With Aquera's multi-tier, hierarchical delegated administration, a partner admin manages delegated admins, and delegated admins set up, engage, and revalidate their own partner users.
What is an internal sponsor in partner IAM? +
An internal sponsor is the person inside the host organization who owns a partner relationship and is accountable for its access. Sponsors set up risk profiles and validation questions, request and approve partner access, and review and revalidate on event, on schedule, or on lack of use.
How does Aquera B2B Partner IAM work end to end? +
Internal sponsors create and validate partner engagements; the Aquera Partner SoR provides delegated administration, partner user lifecycle, and revalidation; and clean, validated identities are sourced to the directory and applications.
Which identity providers does it work with? +
Aquera B2B Partner IAM works with Microsoft Entra ID or Okta as the host organization's central directory, and partners bring their own IDP for user management. Partners without an identity provider manage users through Aquera's delegated-admin web UI instead.
What is revalidation in Aquera B2B Partner IAM? +
Revalidation is Aquera's scheduled, recurring recertification of partner access. Sponsors and delegated admins review and revalidate both partners and individual partner users, triggered by an event, a risk-based schedule, or lack of use.
How does Aquera detect unused partner accounts? +
Lack-of-use revalidation flows automatically trigger a review when a partner account stops being used. Combined with central usage monitoring, this surfaces stale accounts before they become orphaned.
What visibility do administrators get? +
A central dashboard with admin and usage monitoring across the whole partner estate: risk levels, validation status, overdue validations and engagements, and outstanding invites.
How is Aquera different from managing partners directly in Entra ID or Okta? +
Directory-only management means the operations team creates and removes every partner user by hand and reviews are unstructured. Aquera adds a Partner User SoR: user management is delegated to partner admins, sponsors approve rather than administer, and revalidation runs on event, schedule, or lack of use.
What partner access patterns does it support? +
Every common pattern: multi-user partners that federate with their own IDP, multi-user partners without an IDP who use the delegated-admin web UI, and single-user partner organizations administered by their internal sponsor.
How can I see a demo? +
Contact sales@aquera.com to schedule a demo of Aquera B2B Partner IAM, from sponsor setup to delegated administration and automated revalidation. More information is available at aquera.com.