Leadership Compass

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) continues to evolve as one of the most critical areas of Identity and Access Management (IAM). The IGA market is moving towards unified platform solutions that deliver integrated capabilities for identity lifecycle management, access governance, and access intelligence to ensure organizations can manage digital identities securely, efficiently, and in compliance with regulatory requirements.
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Oct 20, 2025
Estimated publication:
April 2026
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Nitish Deshpande

In this Leadership Compass, the primary focus is on the vendors that offer Identity Lifecycle Management, Access Governance, and Access intelligence capabilities, either as a common product or separate but integrated product components to deliver capabilities across the IGA spectrum.

This Leadership Compass is an update of the report published in August 2024. To see what it encompassed, please click here. This update will focus on products offered on on-premises in a deployable form, either at the customer’s site or deployed and offered as a managed service by a Managed IAM Service Provider or as an IDaaS IGA offering. We also consider IGA cloud solutions that can strongly extend their IGA capabilities to on-premises by offering hardware or virtual appliances, software deployed to servers, or container-based options for on-premises delivery for customers that are not yet ready or cannot move to the cloud. Focus is also given to solutions with more modern software architectures, such as using microservices, container-based deployments, and APIs that provide a more modular, flexible deployment, orchestration, and customization.

Thus, this Leadership Compass analyzes, but is not limited to:

• Connectors to target systems including reconciliation
• Account Mapping & Identity Data Model
• Identity Lifecycle Management
• Workflow & Automation capabilities
• User Self-Service Interfaces
• Identity & Access Intelligence
• Access Request Management
• Access Reviews, Recertification
• Auditing, Reporting, including advanced analytics
• Centralized Governance Visibility
• Role & SoD Management
• Admin & DevOps Support
• API support (exposing IGA capabilities via APIs)

We expect solutions to cover a majority of these capabilities, at least at a good baseline level.

How to Book a Briefing
  1. Go to the KuppingerCole Booking tool webpage.
  2. Under Select a Service, select Leadership Compass Briefing 45 mins.
  3. Under Select Staff, scroll down and select Nitish Deshpande
  4. Choose date and time between Nov 17 - Dec 18, 2025 that are convenient for your team. Please note: Times will be shown in your time zone.
  5. You will receive an MS Teams invite that you can forward along to others in your company. Alternatively, you can use this as a placeholder and send us an invite with another app.
  6. Please prepare a slide deck and provide it to the analyst

IGA Briefing Outline

The briefing should give an overview presentation of these key topic areas, as well as a demo of the product capabilities:

Key topics to cover:

  • Deployment & delivery models (support provided, critical patch updates)
  • Solution architecture
  • Connectors to target systems (important)
  • Identity Lifecycle Management
  • User Self-Service and Access Request Management
  • IGA Policy Management
  • Automation capabilities (AI/ ML)
  • Access Reviews, Recertification
  • Role & SoD Management
  • Workflow capabilities
  • API support (exposing IGA capabilities via APIs)
  • Auditing, Reporting, including advanced analytics

The demo can be live, video, or canned, although Nitish would like to be walked through the demo, so he understands the product’s key capabilities including dashboards, etc.

If time allows, and capabilities exist, additional topics that can be covered:

  • Account Mapping & Identity Data Model
  • Centralized Governance Visibility (e.g., single pane of glass IGA view)
  • Admin & DevOps Support
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