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 [...]

Governance-based Provisioning: Succeeding Where Legacy Provisioning Failed

A few weeks ago, SailPoint announced CUNA Mutual as a new customer. CUNA Mutual wanted to proactively manage and mitigate risks associated with user access privileges and turned to IdentityIQ for its tightly integrated identity compliance and provisioning capabilities. Here’s a great quote from Brad Job, the director of information security at CUNA Mutual: SailPoint [...]

Governance in Run-time Access Control World

The Yin and Yang of Governance for XACML I chuckled when I read Ian Glazer’s blog post, “A Chronic Identity Pain.” Ian referred to himself as “an old provisioning guy” – being a few years his senior, it made me think, “Does that make me an old-old provisioning guy?” Having said that, I do consider [...]

Feet on the Street: Gartner’s IAM Summit Focuses on Business Intelligence

The SailPoint team just returned from the 2010 Gartner IAM Summit in San Diego. It’s always a great show because of the focus on IdM and the organizations that attend the show. This year, attendance was up and there were lots of networking opportunities to exchange ideas on this rapidly changing market. I got the [...]

Feet on the Street: SailPoint’s Latest Users Group

Several members of the SailPoint team traveled up to Chicago last week for one of our regional SailPoint Users Group meetings. The meeting was very well attended by SailPoint customers across mid-western states, with a few customers joining us from as far away as North Carolina and Georgia. These events bring together users spanning diverse [...]

Attention Sun IdM Customers – What’s Your “Plan B”?

A little more than a year ago, the industry was surprised to hear that Oracle planned to acquire Sun Microsystems. Immediately, Sun customers began to wonder about the future of their existing IdM investments. It took another several months for the acquisition to be finalized, and then even more before Oracle began to roll out [...]

Oracle’s 11g Falls Short for Today’s Identity Governance Needs

For some time, I’ve been watching Oracle’s marketing machine tout the impending arrival of Oracle Identity Manager 11g- a reportedly “revolutionary” suite of IdM products. I saw the OIM 11g announcement this morning and spent more than a few minutes digesting its contents. I have to admit that I was curious whether Oracle would move [...]