What does User Sync in Okta provisioning do?

User Sync in Okta provisioning is designed to ensure that a user's full profile is accurately reflected across various systems and applications. This process includes synchronizing over 20 attributes, which encompass vital details such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other relevant user information. The synchronization of these attributes ensures consistency and up-to-date information across the platforms, thus allowing for more effective management of user identities within an organization.

The capability to handle a comprehensive range of attributes is critical for maintaining integrity in user data, especially in environments with multiple applications relying on this information for access and functionality. By keeping profile information synchronized, organizations can improve operational efficiency, minimize discrepancies in user data, and enhance security measures by ensuring that incorrect or outdated information does not interfere with user access or services.

Options focusing on synchronizing user profiles with external applications or managing internal directories may touch on aspects of what user provisioning can do, but they don't highlight the robust synchronization of a user’s full profile as accurately as the correct choice does. Additionally, syncing only license assignments is a limited function that does not encompass the broader purpose and capabilities of User Sync, which is fundamentally about comprehensive data synchronization.