The foundation of Banner Enterprise Identity Services architecture is a common definition of identity shared across SunGard Higher Education applications.

The UDCIdentity XML structure, implemented in W3C XML Schema, forms the basis for exchanging user data between SunGard Higher Education applications and external provisioning components such as a third-party identity management systems or a central directory.

The UDCIdentity XML structure aggregates and packages data about a user of a SunGard Higher Education application. When Banner is the authoritative source for this data, the structure is used to provision enterprise user accounts in an identity vault. In turn, this data structure is used to provision other SunGard Higher Education applications as appropriate. When Banner is not the authoritative source for user identity, Banner itself can be provisioned using this structure.

The UDCIdentity XML structure includes person information that normally would be stored in a central directory. Person information includes person name, gender, birth date, e-mail address, primary address, campus address, campus phone, mobile phone, fax, and institutional roles. Some of these structures are complex, having child attributes. The UDCIdentifier userid type is published by the LDIPERSON event and the LDIPERSON object contained in the Extract Process (ICGORLDI).

The userid of type UDCIdentifier is an unchanging, system-generated, 32-character, alphanumeric value. As a globally unique identifier, the UDCIdentifier can be used by systems to ensure that user data objects are properly located, created, and updated. The PERSON object created by Banner Intcomp supports a userid of type UDCIdentifier.