The Profile Manager component provides profile management services for service-oriented applications that have been built by using the Microsoft Connected Services Framework (CSF).

The Profile Manager is an XML Web service that provides access to a SQL Server database that is designed to store profile information for your CSF application. The database is built upon the Resource Description Framework, which provides a flexible and extensible platform to store data about Web resources. The Profile Manager enables you to add new attributes to a profile after the profile is created without having to reconfigure the database schema. 

The Profile Manager supports WS-Eventing, and provides event notifications when you update a user profile in the Profile Manager database. The Profile Integrator Web service of the Profile Manager subscribes to this event to update user profile data in any value added service that is part of a CSF application. If you create services that support WS-Eventing, they can also subscribe to the update notification event.

You can use the Profile Manager component to create, update, read, and delete profiles in the database store. You can also use it to manage user service mappings. A user service mapping is record that indicates that a user has subscribed to a particular service.