US Patent 12013877 Industry standard interface for maintenance of enterprise systems

Managing enterprise data, comprising creating a human resources (HR) database and creating a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) interface in communication with the HR database and a number of heterogeneous external directories. User data is managed and synchronized through the LDAP interface across the number of heterogeneous external directories, wherein the LDAP interface serves as a proxy for requests between the external directories and the HR database, and wherein the LDAP interface maintains authorization credentials with the external directories.