Delivering Business Value through Orchestration

Phillip Messerschmidt

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In an ever-changing digital world, enterprises and vendors face new digital challenges. This is driving the adoption of new solution strategies in which delivering satisfactory modern identity services is key. As a result, the market is shifting to a more agile and modular approach that leverages orchestration to integrate solutions, even in complex architectures.

Organizations are contending with an increasingly intricate Identity and Access Management (IAM) landscape as digital transformation progresses. This evolution introduces numerous identity types, skills, objects, and tools, necessitating IT adaptability. Observations indicate shifts towards flexible and modular architectures, heightened service variety, agile enterprise landscapes, centralized IT efforts, and adoption of Zero Trust security models. These adaptations are essential due to growing end-user demands for flexibility, superior user experiences, and stringent security. Despite myriad challenges including legacy system silos, diverse requirements, and fragmented strategic approaches, a comprehensive IAM strategy—termed Identity Fabrics—can offer a proactive and integrated solution. Such frameworks facilitate seamless integration of best-of-breed solutions, allowing organizations to efficiently manage identities and capabilities. Service orchestration, as demonstrated by industry leaders like Ping Identity, is pivotal in delivering tailored and highly integrated identity services. Implementing enterprise-specific Identity Fabrics and an orchestration approach enhances operational excellence, security, and adaptability in complex IAM environments.

The number of identity types is growing rapidly due to digital transformation.
Companies are increasingly moving away from monolithic architectures to modular ones.
Integration of partner and customer identities is crucial for efficiency and customer experience.
Most companies cannot adopt greenfield approaches due to existing tools and services.
Zero Trust security models view identity as the new security perimeter.
A flexible and modular architecture helps in addressing new IAM requirements.
Market research places Ping Identity as a leader in IDaaS and Authentication.
Ping Identity has partnered with over 350 vendors to offer integrated identity services.
The Identity Fabrics approach allows companies to tailor IAM strategies to their specific needs.
Advanced orchestration contributes to standardization and efficiency during mergers and acquisitions.

"Digitization is significantly changing the entire digital landscape, leading to new challenges and requirements."
"To satisfy customers, solution designers must focus on use cases and target audiences to find the right solutions."
"Organizations are moving away from monolithic architectures towards a flexible and agile best-of-breed approach."
"Zero Trust is likely to become a new baseline for security, combining multiple capabilities from different areas and disciplines."
"Organizations have begun their journey to address these challenges by focusing on strong yet flexible architectures."
"IAM is becoming more important, more diverse, and more complex than ever before."
"An optimal solution must excel in all areas, including flexibility, security, speed, and cost-effectiveness."
"Ping Identity's orchestration capabilities fit seamlessly into existing IT landscapes, offering tailored identity services."
"A well-defined and enterprise-specific Identity Fabric helps organizations stay ahead of their challenges with a structured IAM strategy."
"Market research is recognizing Ping Identity's approach, making it a market leader across multiple disciplines."

Identify and prioritize the identity types most relevant to your organization.
Assess and catalog the assets, objects, and services that need access control.
Define and design the capabilities required for secure and efficient access.
Conduct a status quo analysis to understand existing capabilities and identify gaps.
Highlight and address gaps in the IAM environment for comprehensive capability coverage.
Develop a strategic, enterprise-specific identity fabric to guide IAM efforts.
Implement orchestration to integrate crucial capabilities and address challenges proactively.
Use flexible, modular solutions to accommodate diverse functional and technical requirements.
Collaborate with vendors to ensure a seamless integration of IAM tools and services.
Regularly review and update IAM strategies to stay ahead of evolving security threats and technological advancements.

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The complexity of IAM environments necessitates a strategic, integrated approach.
Digital transformation drives the need for flexible, modular, and orchestrated architectures.
Zero Trust models will likely become the baseline for security in IAM.
Organizations must balance user experience, efficiency, and security to meet end-user demands.
Identity Fabrics can help organizations manage IAM complexity effectively and proactively.

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