Identity Governance and Administration 2022

The Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) market has evolved significantly, integrating traditional User Access Provisioning (UAP) and Identity and Access Governance (IAG) capabilities. Vendors in this space offer solutions ranging from comprehensive IGA implementations to specialized Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM) or Access Governance solutions. The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass provides detailed insights into the landscape by categorizing vendors based on their breadth and depth of functionality, focusing on provisioning or governance. Organizations' diverse IAM requirements—from complete IGA solutions to specific ILM or Access Governance replacements—shape the market trends. IGA vendors' offerings reflect these needs, with an increasing shift towards as-a-service models. The adoption trends indicate a preference for managed services for ILM while retaining governance functions in-house. The report emphasizes the need for organizations to clearly define their IGA requirements before evaluating products, considering factors such as interoperability, functionality, and the balance of provisioning vs. governance capabilities. By combining both IDaaS IGA and on-premises IGA, the report aims to help security leaders identify optimal IAM solutions tailored to their immediate priorities. Key trends include automation to minimize management workload, enhanced interoperability through secure APIs, and an increasing focus on identity and access intelligence as differentiators.

• 25 IGA product vendors evaluated, with over 12% new entries.
• In-depth identity lifecycle management and access governance capabilities.
• Majority of functionalities accessible via REST and SCIM APIs.
• Strong partnership ecosystems and customer base trends.
• Adoption of AI and ML techniques in identity analytics and access governance.
• Integration with ServiceNow and other ITSM tools for request fulfillment.
• Use of role mining for entitlement clustering and role discovery.
• Out-of-the-box connectors for numerous on-premises and cloud systems.
• Enhanced focus on mobile support and user experience in IGA.
• Performance improvements and scalability considerations in IGA products.

• "IGA is essential to business as a strategic approach to ensure overall IT security and regulatory compliance."
• "Automation is a key trend in IGA to reduce management workload by automating tasks and providing process workflows."
• "Leading IGA vendors are increasingly focusing on supporting interoperability with other products and services through the provision of secure APIs."
• "The level of identity and access intelligence has become a key differentiator between IGA product solutions."
• "Organizations scope their IGA requirements well before starting to evaluate products."
• "Following this Leadership Compass will be a separate report focused on Access Governance/IAG."
• "The Overall Leaders are (in alphabetical order) Avatier, Broadcom, Bravura Security, EmpowerID, Evidian, IBM, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Netwrix Corporation, Omada, One Identity, Oracle, RSA, SAP, SailPoint, Saviynt, Simeio."
• "Supporting on-demand and event-driven user access certification campaigns to detect and mitigate access violations."
• "Extending IGA tools functionality by integrating AI and ML can benefit by consuming the user's access activity information."
• "The market continues to remain crowded, with 25 vendors we chose to represent in our Leadership Compass rating."