Digital identities now function as the “new perimeter” as work becomes more distributed, cloud-based, and mobile, expanding identity needs beyond employees (B2E) to partners (B2P), customers/consumers (B2C), and non-human entities such as software services and IoT devices. Identity Management is positioned as a foundational enterprise discipline for digital transformation, security, and privacy, enabling controlled access through identification, authentication, and authorization tied to user rights and restrictions. Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) is described as the convergence of identity lifecycle management and access governance, spanning entitlement management, workflow/policies, role management, access certification, segregation-of-duties (SOD) risk analysis, reporting, and access intelligence. Insufficient IGA capabilities increase exposure due to inefficient entitlement administration, weak role management, and inadequate auditing and reporting.
Cloud identity stores and directories such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory heighten expectations for out-of-the-box integrations using specifications like SCIM, while user experience enhancements—often via mobile and collaboration tools like Slack—have become differentiators. IGA tools are also evolving from reporting toward advanced identity analytics and machine learning to automate reviews, recommend role optimization, mitigate risk-based policy violations, and correlate identity events across systems for actionable intelligence. Additional market trends include convergence or integration between IGA and Privileged Access Management (PAM), plus growth in Application Access Governance and Data Access Governance to reduce access violations and protect sensitive data.
Saviynt’s Enterprise Identity Cloud (EIC), founded in 2010 in California, unifies IGA, PAM, Application Access Governance, Third-Party Access Governance, and Data Access Governance. The platform emphasizes business-friendly usability, automation (including RPA “Identity Bot” for legacy apps), analytics, and NLP-driven search and control authoring, while acknowledging vendor risks tied to VC-backed rapid growth and competitive pressure.
