Techniques for identity management, and more particularly, to techniques for performing universal identity management or governance over a wide variety of applications. In one aspect a computer-implement method is provided that includes receiving a request for a query of data or a CRUD operation on the data. The data is part of a target application hosted by an enterprise. The method further includes obtaining a schema of objects associated with the target application. The schema models a relationship between the objects, and the objects represent the data of the target application. The method further includes executing the query or CRUD operation on the objects based on the schema, executing the query or CRUD operation on the data based on the schema, and reporting results of the query or CRUD operation on the data.