Product Report: EmpowerID - 71115

EmpowerID was founded in 2005. The company initially was called The Dot Net Factory. Over the years, EmpowerID grew from a vendor of point solutions for administration of Windows Server and Microsoft Server products to providing an integrated platform that covers a large breadth of IAM/IAG (Identity and Access Management/Governance) features.

EmpowerID in 2013 announced a new release that shows a respectable attempt to unify the approach to Identity and Access Management in a single tool. EmpowerID now offers User Management, Provisioning, Access Governance, Cloud Single Sign-On (SSO) and Access Management in one product. EmpowerID 2013 is workflow-based, highly configurable and customisable, while paying attention to the current issues in Identity & Access Management, such as Cloud services and the need for extreme scalability.

Overall, EmpowerID is a very interesting and innovative solution. The approach taken is a good choice for integrated IAM suites, but also when looking at various specific requirements. We recommend considering EmpowerID in product selections. A challenge is the still small partner ecosystem, with few partners as of now. We strongly encourage EmpowerID to grow their number of partners.