About

Europe’s Leading Analysts on Identity Management, Digital IDs – and more…

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Kuppinger Cole + Partner (KCP), founded in 2004, has become the leading Europe-based analyst company for all topics around Identity Management and Digital Identities. KCP stands for expertise, thought leadership, and a vendor-neutral view on the broader “identity market”, including aspects like classical Identity and Access Management (IaM), Information Rights Management (IRM), Identity Risk Management, Digital Certificates, Cards and Tokens, Single Sign-On, Auditing, Federation, User Centric Identity Management and Identity 2.0, and many more.

Always up-to-date

We are continuously analyzing the market, talking with vendors as well as users, and providing the results in our cost-free newsletters and the comprehensive monthly KCP market view newsletter, through Webinars and our reports and studies, in key-note presentations and events.

Our research covers far beyond 100 companies in the broader IAM space, with a world-wide focus and not being limited to some key players. We observe the leading companies as well as the emerging ones. Thus we can give advice for short-term decisions on specific problems and technologies as well as provide a vision for the long-term strategy and roadmap.

Business and Technology

IT’s biggest challenge today is to fully understand and support business. KCP supports you, with the combination of a thorough understanding of business requirements and business drivers, thought leadership for emerging topics like Enterprise Information Management and the ERP for IT, and the intensive knowledge of the vendors, technologies, and trends in the IT market segments we observe.

Beyond Identity Management

It is important to note that KCP isn’t limited to Identity Management. Identity Management and Digital IDs are tightly connected to many other important areas of today’s IT, especially the BSM/ITSM (Business Service/IT Service Management), SOA (Service-Oriented Architectures) and the respective applications, and GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance). But digital IDs are a vital part of Core Business Systems as well – one view on the employee, the supplier, and especially the customer means nothing else than one view on their digital identity.

With the enhanced research scope we cover all these areas – on the same distinct level which helped us becoming the leading analysts in IAM.