The UK Federation SUM is a high-level view of the business processes underlying the UK federation's framework that enables authorised members to have access to resources and services from the other federation members.

The processes manage not only the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research (the UK federation) members, but also the federated Service Provider (SP) and Identity Provider (IdP) entities, user management, service usage, and support and monitoring activities. This SUM should be of interest to other national federations and to other organisations that want to interact with the UK federation.