Populations and Groups

Populations and Groups are used to subdivide identity sets within IdentityIQ for reporting and internal system tasks. Populations and Groups are created through different mechanisms, but they are used in similar ways throughout the IdentityIQ application.

Populations

Populations are sets of Identities generated from queries on the Advanced Analytics page and can be based on multiple criteria, such as North America, non-manager, or accounting department employees. Any Identity Attribute marked as Searchable can be used as a Population criterion. The result set for the query (the Population) is a single set of Identities who share a common set of properties.

Groups

Groups are sets of Identities that share a common value for a specific Identity Attribute. Only Identity Attributes marked as Group Factory attributes can be used as a group filter attribute in the creation of Groups. Groups are usually created in sets. For example, generating groups based on the Attribute Region can produce a set of five groups: North America, Western Europe, Asia, South America, Eastern Europe.

When a Population or Group is saved, the query criteria to generate it is recorded and not the set of Identities that matched the criteria at that moment. Each time the Population or Group is used, the query is run and the current set of Identities matching the query criteria is retrieved and applied to the operation.