Patent ID: 8706766

Claim:
A system for triggering a plurality of provisioning events using a single, hierarchical provisioning request message stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium generated by an external system, the hierarchical provisioning request message identifying a plurality of provisioning events from a plurality of service providers to request for an entity, comprising: a provisioning system operable to electronically receive the single, hierarchical provisioning request message from the external system and transmit information in the hierarchical provisioning request message to each of the plurality of service providers identified in the hierarchical provisioning request to trigger the provisioning events, wherein the provisioning system is separate from the external system and the plurality of service providers; and the hierarchical provisioning request message being a format-independent electronic message capable of being constructed by and interpreted by a plurality of different external systems, the hierarchical provisioning request message having a data structure that includes information identifying the entity to which the plurality of provisioning events pertain, wherein the identifying information includes one or more attributes defined by the external system, wherein the hierarchical provisioning request message further includes a provisioning event data structure associated with each of the plurality of provisioning events requested for the entity, wherein the provisioning event data structure identifies a service provider associated with a provisioning event requested for the entity.