1 Introduction / Executive Summary

The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass provides an overview of vendors and their product or service offerings in a certain market segment. This Leadership compass focuses on the market segment of Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) with a focus on IGA (Identity Governance and Administration, i.e., Identity Provisioning and Access Governance) technologies. IDaaS IGA, as the market is termed, has observed a significant growth in terms of new IAM (Identity and Access Management) purchases and is emerging as one of the fastest-growing markets of IAM characterized by cloud-based delivery of traditional IAM services.

The overall IDaaS market, driven largely by web-centric use-cases in its early days, now offers full-fledged delivery of IAM capabilities irrespective of application delivery models. The significant growth of the IDaaS market can be attributed to the ever-increasing demand of organizations to achieve better time-to-value proposition over on-premises IAM deployments and to extend IAM capabilities to meet the security requirements of growing SaaS portfolio.

1.1 Highlights

• This Leadership Compass evaluates over 40% more IDaaS IGA product vendors over the previous years.
• The IDaaS IGA market is growing, and although maturing it continues to evolve.
• IGA is essential to business as a strategic approach to ensure overall IT security and regulatory compliance.
• The level of identity and access intelligence has become a key differentiator between IGA product solutions.
• 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 Overall Leaders are (in alphabetical order) EmpowerID, IBM, Microsoft, One Identity, SailPoint, Saviynt, Simeio.
• The Product Leaders (in alphabetical order) are EmpowerID, IBM, Ilantus, Microsoft, One Identity, SailPoint, Saviynt, Simeio.
• The Innovation Leaders (in alphabetical order) are Accenture, Avatier, EmpowerID, IBM, Microsoft, SailPoint, Saviynt, Simeio.
• Leading vendors in innovation and market (a.k.a. the "Big Ones") in the IGA market are (in alphabetical order) IBM, Microsoft, SailPoint, Saviynt, Simeio.