Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)

1 Introduction

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) combines the traditional User Access Provisioning (UAP) and Identity and Access Governance (IAG) markets. ...

1.1 Market Segment

Identity Governance and Administration refers to the increasingly integrated Identity Provisioning and Access Governance markets. Where Identity Provi ...

Ease versus perceived business value of IGA integrations with enterprise systems

Scalability and Performance: With an increasing IT landscape for o ...

1.2 Delivery models

This Leadership Compass is focused on products that are offered in on-premises deployable form, either at the customer’s site or deployed and offere ...

1.3 Required capabilities

During our evaluation of IGA vendors for the purpose of representation in this Leadership Compass, we look at several evaluation criteria including bu ...

2 Leadership

Selecting a vendor of a product or service must not only be based on the information provided in a KuppingerCole Leadership Compass. The Leadership Co ...

When looking at the Leader segment in the Overall Leadership rating, we see a picture that is a typical representation of mature markets, where a cons ...

Product Leadership, or in this case Service Leadership, is where we examine the functional strength and completeness of services. As Identity Governa ...

We have rated several vendors as Innovation Leaders in the Identity Governance and Administration market. Given the maturity of IGA solutions, the amo ...

The Market Leadership evaluation paints a different picture of vendors. With a group of leading, well-established IGA players, many others are new ent ...

3 Correlated View

While the Leadership charts identify leading vendors in certain categories, many customers are looking not only for a product leader, but for a vendor ...

3.1 The Market/Product Matrix

The first of these correlated views contrasts Product Leadership and Market Leadership

Vendors below the line have a weaker market position than expected according to their product maturity. Vendors above the line are sort of “overperf ...

3.2 The Product/Innovation Matrix

This view shows how Product Leadership and Innovation Leadership are correlated. It is not surprising that there is a pretty good correlation between ...

Vendors below the line are more innovative, vendors above the line are, compared to the current Product Leadership positioning, less innovative.

Her ...

3.3 The Innovation/Market Matrix

The third matrix shows how Innovation Leadership and Market Leadership are related. Some vendors might perform well in the market without being Innova ...

Vendors below the line are more innovative, vendors above the line are, compared to the current Market Leadership positioning, less innovative.

Vend ...

4 Products and Vendors at a glance

This section provides an overview of the various IGA products/services we have analyzed within this KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on Identity Gover ...

4.1 Ratings at a glance

Based on our evaluation, a comparative overview of the ratings of all the products covered in this document is shown in Table 1.

In addition, we provide in Table 2 an overview which also contains four additional ratings for the vendor, going beyond the product view provided in t ...

Table 2 requires some additional explanation regarding the “critical” rating.

In Innovativeness, this rating is applied if vendors provide none or v ...

5 Product/service evaluation

This section contains a quick rating for every product/service we’ve included in this KuppingerCole Leadership Compass document. For many of the pro ...

5.1 Avatier Identity AnyWhere

Avatier, based in California (US), is one of the few IGA vendors that have demonstrated revolutionary changes to adapt to evolving market demands in t ...

5.2 Beta Systems Garancy IAM Suite

Beta Systems, based in Germany, offers Garancy IAM Suite consisting of Identity Manager, User Center, Process Center, Recertification Center, Data Acc ...

5.3 Broadcom Symantec Identity Governance and Adminstration (IGA)

Broadcom, an American manufacturer of semiconductor and infrastructure software products company, acquired CA Technologies in late 2018 and acquired t ...

5.4 EmpowerID

Founded in 2005 and based in Ohio (US), it provides multiple products in a suite and offers EmpowerID as its IGA product. EmpowerID supports medium to ...

5.5 E-Trust Horacius

E-Trust was founded in 1999 with headquartered in Brazil and having an initial focus on information security. Later in 2006, E-Trust launched their Id ...

5.6 Evidian IGA

Based in France, Evidian is a dedicated business branch of the ATOS group within their Cybersecurity division since 2015, which is one of the leading ...

5.7 Evolveum midPoint

Evolveum is an Open Source IAM vendor based in Slovakia. Their midPoint product is provided for free, but with a subscription for professional service ...

5.8 Fischer International Identity Suite

Fischer Identity offers Fischer Identity Suite comprising of several modules available as a bundled offering to deliver a broad range of IGA capabilit ...

5.9 Hitachi ID Identity Manager

Hitachi ID provides a product named Identity Manager, which integrates Identity provisioning and Access Governance, including strong support for SOD ( ...

5.10 IBM Security Identity Governance & Intelligence

IBM Security Identity Governance & Intelligence is the successor of IBM Security/Tivoli Identity Manager (ISIM/ITIM) and one of the more mature produc ...

5.11 Identity Automation RapidIdentity

Founded in 2004, Identity Automation introduced its RapidIdentity IAM solution later in 2010. In 2018, Identity Automation acquired HealthCast, a vend ...

5.12 Ilantus Compact Identity

Ilantus, which started as a system integrator, has moved to provide offerings targeted at different types of customers. Their solution Compact Identit ...

5.13 Ilex Meibo People Pack (MPP)

ILEX, a French vendor, offers Meibo Identity Management as its primary Identity Governance and Administration platform, aimed at allowing customers th ...

5.14 Micro Focus Identity Manager Suite

UK based Micro Focus offers Identity Manager aimed primarily at Identity Provisioning and lifecycle management, and Identity Governance for Access Gov ...

5.15 One Identity Manager

One Identity, based in California, is a Quest Software business. It owns the IAM portfolio that came from Dell Software. One Identity Manager, which h ...

5.16 Oracle Identity Governance

Oracle Identity Governance (OIG) Suite is the on-premise offering within Oracle’s IAM portfolio. Oracle Identity Governance is Oracle's primary IGA ...

5.17 RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle

RSA, a leading provider of security solutions, offers RSA SecurID Suite, which includes RSA SecurID Access (Multi-factor Authentication, Access & SSO) ...

5.18 SailPoint Predictive Identity Platform

SailPoint originally started as a vendor specialized in Access Governance, and significant technology and personnel investments in its Identity Provis ...

5.19 SAP Access Control

SAP has established a considerable IAM portfolio over the past few years, and its recent acquisition of Gigya shows its continued commitment to grow a ...

5.20 Saviynt Security Manager

Founded in 2010 and based in California (US), Saviynt offers Saviynt Security Manager - Enterprise Identity Governance Administration as its IGA produ ...

5.21 Simeio Identity Orchestrator

Founded in 2007, Simeio Solutions witnessed significant growth when shifting from its IAM system integration business into a full-fledged IDaaS servic ...

5.22 Soffid IAM

Based in Spain and established in 2013, Soffid IAM provides an open-source Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Single Sign-On (SSO) solution. Sof ...

6 Vendors and Market Segments to watch

Aside from the vendors covered in detail in this Leadership Compass document, we also observe other vendors in the market that we find interesting. So ...

6.1 Accenture Memority

Accenture Memority is provided by a unit within Accenture Security, delivering an IDaaS solution. Memority started as an independent software vendor a ...

6.2 Atos

Atos, having acquired Evidian indirectly via the Groupe Bull acquisition, has also acquired the former Siemens Business Services which includes the Si ...

6.3 Clear Skye

Founded in 2016, Clear Skye is a small privately-owned company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area. The Clear Skye IGA solution is built on an ...

6.4 ForgeRock

ForgeRock is a leading, venture-backed IAM vendor, headquartered in the US but with many offices around the world. ForgeRock supports most major IAM s ...

6.5 Ideiio

Ideiio is a fairly new vendor in the IGA space; spun out from ProofID – an IAM professional services provider and system integrator based in Manches ...

6.6 Imprivata

Imprivata is a digital identity company focused primarily on healthcare. Imprivata Identity Governance is a healthcare-specific identity governance an ...

6.7 Nexis

Nexis, based in Germany, offers Nexis Controle as its combined identity provisioning and access governance offering. Controle, first released in 2014, ...

6.8 Omada

Omada, a Danish vendor, provides the Omada Identity Suite as an integrated Access Governance and Identity Provisioning platform to deliver a range of ...

6.9 Pirean

Pirean is a medium-sized company founded in 2002 with offices in London and Sydney. Their company provides a Consumer and Workforce IDaaS platform wit ...

6.10 Singular ID

Avalon Solutions is a small, mid-market company that services the Latin American region. Their product, singular_id, can be deployed on-premises, clou ...

6.11 Tools4ever

Tools4ever is a Dutch software company that started in the SMB market segment but has grown its portfolio to a level where it can also serve the IAM r ...

6.12 Tuebora

Tuebora, based in California, offers Tuebora Governance as its primary IGA product. One of the earliest IGA vendors to leverage machine learning techn ...

6.13 Usercube

Founded in 2009, Usercube is a French software company delivering an IAM solution based on the Microsoft technology platform with capabilities solely ...

7 Related Research

Executive View: Atos DirX Identity - 80166
Executive View: Avatier Identity Management Suite - 71510
Executive View: Beta Systems Garancy IAM Suite - 71530
Executive View: EmpowerID - 70297
Executive View: Evidian Identity & Access Management - 70872
Executive View: Hitachi ID IAM Suite - 72543
Executive View: Imprivata - 71514
Executive View: Oracle Identity Governance - 80157
Executive View: Pirean Consumer IAM Platform - 70223
Executive View: RSA® Identity Governance and Lifecycle - 71052
Executive View: SailPoint SecurityIQ - 70849
Executive View: Saviynt Security Manager for Enterprise IGA - 80325
Executive View: Simeio IAM for SMB - 79071
Leadership Compass: Access Governance & Intelligence - 71145
Leadership Compass: Access Management and Federation - 71147
Leadership Compass: IDaaS Access Management - 79016
Leadership Compass: Identity API Platforms - 79012
Leadership Compass: Identity as a Service (IDaaS) IGA - 80051
Leadership Compass: Identity as a Service: Single Sign-On to the Cloud (IDaaS SSO) - 71141
Leadership Compass: Identity as a Service (IDaaS B2E) - 70319
Leadership Compass: Identity Provisioning - 71139
Whitepaper: Pirean: Orchestrated Identity for Meeting IAM & CIAM Requirements -70225
Whitepaper: SailPoint: Governance for all data: Get a grip on unstructured data - 79046