Accenture Memority

Identity & Access Management (IAM) has become a foundational control point for protecting digital corporate assets in increasingly complex, hybrid IT environments. As traditional network perimeters lose relevance due to mobile work, partner/customer integration, and cloud adoption, the importance of digital assets and intellectual property rises—especially with connected devices and smart manufacturing turning operational data and systems into “crown jewels.” Effective IAM reduces attack surface by enforcing well-managed identities, accounts, credentials, and entitlements, supporting least privilege through automation, and enabling regular entitlement reviews to detect excess access. At the same time, IAM is positioned as a business enabler: it streamlines onboarding, change, and offboarding workflows for employees, contractors, partners, customers, and increasingly things/devices, while also governing runtime access.

A key market shift is the convergence from on-premises IAM to IDaaS (Identity as a Service), driven by faster time-to-value and cloud-ready integrations that extend IAM controls across growing SaaS portfolios. However, IDaaS offerings vary widely—from SSO to full provisioning and access governance—and differ in support for user populations, mobile needs, and on-premises integration. Modern approaches emphasize integrated delivery across IGA (lifecycle management and access governance) and Access Management within “Identity Fabrics,” which provide consistent capabilities across identity types, often via centralized services and APIs.

Accenture Memority is presented as an Identity Fabric-oriented IDaaS covering both IGA and Access Management, with modular design, comprehensive APIs, and capabilities including consent handling, identity relationship management, federation standards support (OAuth2, SAML), adaptive authentication with MFA, and strong IoT enablement. It supports multi-tenant and per-tenant deployments, offers EU-based datacenters and certifications, and benefits from Accenture’s digital transformation expertise, though it faces challenges in market visibility and has only baseline access governance.

• IAM manages user accounts, entitlements, and access across organizational systems and applications.
• Mobile access, partner/customer integration, and cloud shifts have reduced the relevance of traditional network perimeters.
• Digital corporate assets and intellectual property have increased in value and relevance in recent years.
• IDaaS is described as one of the fastest growing market segments within IAM.
• IDaaS growth has been driven primarily by organizations seeking better time-to-value than on-premises IAM deployments.
• Accenture Memority began as an independent software vendor and became part of Accenture three years ago.
• Accenture Memority supports both IDaaS IGA and IDaaS Access Management use cases.
• The platform supports identity federation standards including OAuth2 and SAML.
• Adaptive authentication capabilities partially build on the InWebo solution used by Accenture Memority.
• Access governance in Accenture Memority is characterized as only baseline level.

• “IAM today is at the core of enterprise IT infrastructures when it comes to protecting digital corporate assets.”
• “IAM done right ensures that identities, their user accounts and passwords, and their access entitlements are well-managed and that authentication works as expected.”
• “IAM thus reduces the attack surface by helping organizations moving towards the ‘least privilege’ principle.”
• “IAM is the tool for implementing the workflows and automated processes for onboarding users and granting them access.”
• “Over the past few years, we have seen a convergence of traditional IAM deployments that run on premises towards IDaaS.”
• “The IDaaS market has evolved over the past few years and is still growing, both in size and in the number of vendors.”
• “Modern IAM architectures focus on a consistent delivery of the required capabilities in an integrated manner.”
• “This concept of Identity Fabrics… helps in setting up a consistent IAM infrastructure.”
• “Accenture Memority has a modular architecture that gives the flexibility to adapt to a wide range of customer use cases.”
• “Altogether with the ability of Accenture to support customers in their Digital Transformation initiatives, Accenture Memority has the potential to become a backbone of the future IAM of digital businesses.”