KuppingerCole Report
Executive View
By Paul Fisher

IBM Cloud Identity

IDaaS IAM is a fast growing market, characterized by cloud-based delivery of access management capabilities for business irrespective of the application and service delivery models. The promise of improved time-to-value proposition is prioritizing adoption of IDaaS for B2B, B2E and B2C access management use-cases, helping IDaaS to dominate new IAM purchases globally. This report is an introduction for organizations to IBM’s IDaaS product, IBM Cloud Identity.
By Paul Fisher
pf@kuppingercole.com

Content of Figures

  1. Figure 1 Administrator dashboard showing application usage for a single user (Image: IBM)
  2. Figure 2 IBM Cloud Identity launcher end user interface is clean and easy to understand (Image: IBM)

1 Introduction

IBM Cloud Identity competes in the IDaaS market. This has become one of the fastest-growing markets of IAM (Identity and Access Management), character ...

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2 Product Description

IBM Cloud Identity is the company’s primary subscription based IDaaS platfrom. It is notable for its intuitive and attractive interface, fast onboar ...

Features for developers

IBM has ensured that Cloud Identity APIs can be accessed by in-house developers to bundle user management and authentication ...

End users can access all their applications with a single set of login credentials, allowing one-click access to browser, mobile and on-premises appli ...

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3 Strengths and Challenges

IBM Cloud Identity is a well thought out and well-designed product. The company clearly decided it had to be an innovator and leader in the IDaaS spac ...

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4 Related Research

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