How Providence Health Built Its Next Generation IAM

If your hospital emergency room is in beautiful downtown Burbank, California, chances are you are going to have some pretty well-known people walk in from the various movie and TV studios that populate the town. And, if you are the System Director of Enterprise Security for the company that owns that hospital, you have a [...]

How to Sell IAM to Your Executives and End Users at the Same Time

As readers of this blog well know, selling IAM solutions internally is not always a slam-dunk, and with six-plus figure price tags, these sales take time to win both upper management and then users in the trenches. Part of the trick is being able to sell up and down concurrently, by crafting your message carefully [...]

2013 – The Future of IAM is Now

It’s hard to believe that once again, it’s time to reflect on the past year and look ahead to 2013. 2012 was an incredible year for SailPoint – one that saw us both achieve significant milestones in the company’s growth and allowed us to build an even stronger foundation for the future. We continued to [...]

Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation: SailPoint “Consumerizes” IdentityIQ

Since our inception, SailPoint has been committed to delivering innovation in the IdM market. We were the first to introduce an IdM solution that enabled a collaborative relationship between the business and IT. We were the first to extend that business-friendly approach to the very complex and technical provisioning processes. And this week, we were [...]

A Closer Look at SailPoint’s Latest Cloud Announcement

Last week, we announced SailPoint AccessIQ, a product that seamlessly integrates new cloud access management capabilities with the identity governance and provisioning capabilities of our flagship product, IdentityIQ. AccessIQ provides single sign-on and self-service access request for cloud and web applications, while ensuring that access to cloud apps is managed with the same policies and [...]

Big News! SailPoint Well Positioned in Two IdM Magic Quadrants

You may have missed it during the year-end holiday break, but we have exciting news! Gartner published two major identity management Magic Quadrants that positioned SailPoint as a leader and visionary, respectively. Both reports are based on an exhaustive process that included an in-depth product and company evaluation and interviews with SailPoint customers. The Gartner [...]

SCIM: The Right Standard at the Right Time

I’m excited to report that the Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) working group has unanimously approved the SCIM 1.0 specification. SailPoint contributed heavily to both the working group process and the development of the spec. With this week’s big move forward, I wanted to share my thoughts on why SCIM is good for our enterprise [...]

Through the Looking Glass: IdM in 2012

I don’t know about you, but this is my favorite time of year. Beyond the hustle and bustle and joy of the holiday season, I enjoy this time of year in business because of what it means: a time to reflect on the previous year, the rush to close out year end deals, and a [...]

Building a Business Case for Governance-based Identity Management

As 2011 comes to a close, it’s time once again to plan for future IdM requirements and define budget needs for 2012. Based on today’s business drivers – from security and risk management, to increasing compliance requirements, to the need to streamline delivery of access to users across the business – many organizations are placing [...]

Consumers Speak: Data Breaches Impact Customer Retention

Here’s some news that will surprise no one, but at the same time deserves some serious thought. Recently, SailPoint commissioned our 2011 Market Pulse Survey to help us gauge the impact that all-too-frequent data breaches have on consumer loyalty to banks, credit card companies and retailers. Not surprisingly, the survey confirmed that consumers are clearly [...]