Omada Identity Cloud

Identity & Access Management (IAM) has become a foundational element of enterprise IT because it governs how employees, partners, customers, devices, and “things” are identified and granted access to systems, applications, and data. As traditional network perimeters lose relevance due to mobility, partner integration, and cloud adoption, organizations face a growing need to protect increasingly valuable digital assets and intellectual property, including “crown jewel” assets emerging from connected manufacturing and smart industrial environments. In this context, IAM reduces attack surface by enforcing well-managed accounts, authentication, and entitlements, supporting least privilege, automating provisioning, and enabling regular reviews to identify excessive access.

IAM also enables business operations by streamlining onboarding and change workflows, ensuring access is granted when needed and revoked when no longer required, while managing access at runtime. Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) is emphasized as a core IAM discipline that prevents orphaned accounts, restricts entitlements for compliance, and reduces risks from both internal and external threats, with emerging requirements to support IoT identities.

The market is shifting from on-premises IAM toward Identity as a Service (IDaaS), driven by faster time-to-value and cloud-ready integrations that extend governance across hybrid and SaaS environments. Within this landscape, the report evaluates Omada Identity Cloud, an IDaaS IGA offering rebuilt from Omada’s established on-premises roots. The service focuses on aligning “actual state” access with “desired state” policies using connectors to authoritative sources (such as HR) and target systems, supported by dashboards, workflows, and change execution. Omada adds a best-practices framework (IdentityPROCESS+), training via Omada Academy, and an accelerator aimed at deploying the solution within 12 weeks, with strengths in access governance, analytics dashboards, SoD controls, flexible no-code configuration, and continuous delivery.

• IAM manages user accounts, passwords, entitlements, and access across multiple systems and applications.
• Mobile access, partner/customer integration, and cloud adoption have reduced the relevance of traditional network perimeters.
• Digital corporate assets and intellectual property have increased in value and relevance.
• Connected things and smart manufacturing make digital assets “crown jewels” for traditional industries such as mechanical engineering.
• IDaaS is a fast-growing IAM segment delivering IAM capabilities via cloud-based services.
• IDaaS market growth has been driven by organizations seeking better time-to-value than on-premises IAM deployments.
• Omada Identity Cloud is an IDaaS offering from Omada, an IGA vendor headquartered in Denmark.
• Omada Accelerator Package targets deployment of Omada Identity Cloud within 12 weeks.
• Omada Identity Cloud supports SCIM and API-based connectivity using interfaces such as REST and SOAP, and includes OData support.
• Omada Identity Cloud provides ITSM integration, including integration with ServiceNow for manual provisioning within IGA processes.

• “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.”
• “IGA (Identity Governance and Administration) as one of the core disciplines within IAM helps in managing identities and avoiding orphaned accounts.”
• “The IDaaS market has registered significant growth over the last few years primarily driven by the need of organizations to achieve better time-to-value proposition over on-premises IAM deployments.”
• “Omada Identity Cloud… focuses on managing access entitlements by ensuring that the actual state meets the desired state.”
• “Authoritative sources such as HR systems keep the ‘single source of truth’ about various types of identities.”
• “Connectivity packages are updated and extended continuously, de-coupled from the release cycle of Omada Identity Cloud…”
• “The user interface of Omada Identity Cloud follows a modern approach, based on dashboards and a well-structured, personalized interface…”
• “Omada has invested significantly into improving the user experience over the past years…”
• “With a well-thought-out deployment model, a modern architecture and user interface, and a significantly increased flexibility… Omada Identity Cloud is an robust and modern solution in the IDaaS IGA market.”