IT is moving more and more to a hybrid and cloud based approach. To provision identities in a cloud based environment SCIM 2.0 is now a days becoming a major player:
http://www.simplecloud.info/#Implementations2
The fact that SCIM 2.0 is extensible makes it a future proof standard, that was lacking in SCIM 1.0.
A lot of competitors (Oracle, Microsoft, Okta, One Identity etc.) already have a connector available. To catch this running train Micro Focus Identity Manager should jump a board by developing a SCIM 2.0 Driver Shim for IDM.