Non-Employee : NELM source vs Azure AD filtered source

Identity Security Cloud (ISC) ISC Discussion and Questions
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Hi Experts,

We have an Azure AD source that contains employee and vendor (B2B data).

The client also wants to use IDN for non-employee lifecycle management in future releases.

What should be the preferred approach in this scenario - creating an AAD source which filters the vendor’s records and using it for identity profile, UAR and provisioning activities or using a NELM source.

From my understanding, using AAD with a filter would be a simpler approach and should be able to solve the UAR and provisioning requirements; manually creating the NELM source feed and maintaining it don’t seem to be ideal, along with the limitation on 10 additional schema attributes and 20k users per source. I went through NELM documentation but the recommendation is not clear in which scenarios it can be used and what additional benefits it can provide over a filtered direct connector. Please advise here.

@colin_mckibben

Regards,
Aditya

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Hi Aditya

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