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Leadership Brief
By Matthias Reinwarth

Leveraging Identity Fabrics on Your Way Towards Cloud Based IAM

Traditional Enterprise Identity Management systems increasingly need to be reconsidered with regard to their operating expenses, but also their capabilities for modern digital services. IAM services provided from the cloud offer promising additions. The "Identity Fabric" concept can facilitate a gradual, non-disruptive integration and migration.
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  1. Figure 1 Capabilities, services and architecture building blocks as part of the Identity Fabric

1 Executive Summary

Many organizations are rethinking their IAM (Identity and Access Management) and IGA (Identity Governance & Administration, integrated solutions for I ...

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2 Analysis

At first glance, it seems almost odd: Particularly organizations that recognized the essential role of Identity and Access Management for administrati ...

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3 Recommendations

Identity Fabrics are a concept that serves as a viable foundation for enterprise architectures for Identity and Access Management (IAM) that serve th ...

IDaaS (Identity as a Service) is a market segment of IAM characterized by delivery of traditional IAM services in an as-a-service model. Such offerin ...

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4 Related Research

Leadership Brief: Identity Fabrics - Connecting Anyone to Every Service - 80204
Whitepaper: Digital Transformation for Business Enablement Requires a Modern Identity Fabric - 80165
Whitepaper: Modern Identity Fabrics: A Cornerstone of your Digital Strategy - 80170
Leadership Compass: Identity as a Service (IDaaS) IGA - 80051
Whitepaper: Why Modern Enterprise IAM Must Be Rearchitected: Build Your Case for Containerized IAM and IDaaS - 80044

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