Wiesbaden, April 15th, 2014 – Overview and decision-making tool in one: the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass Identity Provisioning offers a comprehensive overview of the many Identity Provisioning solution providers in the market.
The Leadership Compass shows that Identity Provisioning is still one of the core segments of the overall IAM market. Identity Provisioning is about provisioning identities and access entitlements to target systems. This includes creating and managing accounts in such connected target systems and associating the accounts with groups, roles, and other types of administrative entities to enable entitlements and authorizations in the target systems. Identity Provisioning is about automating these tasks, based on defined processes for creating, updating, and deleting identity-related information in the target systems. Despite the emergence of Access Governance solutions that focus on Access Request Management, Access Recertification, or SoD (Segregation of Duties) management and enforcement, Identity Provisioning remains a core capability of IAM infrastructures.
There can be no question that selecting the right Identity Provisioning product requires extensive prior analysis of the specific initial situation. To support this process, KuppingerCole´s Leadership Compass offers an overview of the providers of Identity Provisioning solutions, among which KuppingerCole distinguishes between “Leaders” in four categories:
- “Product Leaders” are characterized by outstanding products that significantly exceed the expectations in this market segment.
- “Market Leaders” boast a broad, international customer base with a stable and organically evolved partner structure.
- “Innovation Leaders” provide innovations and leading-edge product ideas that are expected to bring new possibilities to this market segment.
- “Overall Leaders” combine strengths in all three categories based on the strengths of the product they offer, their market presence and the vendor´s product innovations.
In all four categories, KuppingerCole distinguishes between Leaders, Challengers and Followers. While the Leaders are classified according to the criteria listed above, the Challengers are expected by KuppingerCole to steadily develop and expand the existing strengths of the products they offer. The Followers group contains companies where there is still room for development in several areas.
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