{"id":1132,"date":"2016-06-13T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T14:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2018-07-20T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:45:12","slug":"whats-changed-gartners-2016-identity-and-access-management-as-a-service-idaas-magic-quadrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/whats-changed-gartners-2016-identity-and-access-management-as-a-service-idaas-magic-quadrant\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Changed: Gartner\u2019s 2016 Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) Magic Quadrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Editor’s Note:\u00a0<\/strong>The IDaaS Magic Quadrant is no longer a yearly report. For more information on IDaaS, check out the\u00a0Kuppingercole Leadership Compass \u2013 IDaaS: Single Sign-On to the Cloud<\/a> and\u00a0The Forrester Wave: Identity-As-A-Service Q4 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Analyst house Gartner has released the latest iteration of its annual identity and access management as a service (IDaaS) Magic Quadrant (MQ) report.<\/p>\n

In the 2016 MQ for IDaaS, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 14 vendors that it considers most significant in the IDaaS market, and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their ability to execute and their completeness of vision. The graph is divided into four quadrants: niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in its research publications.<\/p>\n

At Solutions Review, We read the 30-page report and pulled a few of what we considered the most important takeaways and key changes since the 2015 edition.<\/p>\n

What is IDaaS?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before jumping into the big changes in this iteration of the report, we should probably clarify exactly what Gartner analysts mean when they talk about Identity and Access Management as a Service, or IDaaS.<\/p>\n

According to Gartner’s analysts, \u201ca vendor in the IDaaS market delivers a predominantly cloud-based service in a multitenant or dedicated and hosted delivery model. The service brokers a set of functionality across multiple IAM functions \u2014 specifically, identity and governance administration (IGA), access enforcement, and analytics functions \u2014 to target systems on customers’ premises and in the cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2016 IDaaS MQ report rates vendors on the ability to be \u201cgeneral purpose\u201d identity and access management (IAM) service providers with a variety of use cases; in order to be ranked, vendors must have functionality in IGA, access, and identity log monitoring and reporting.<\/p>\n


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A Market Poised for Exponential Growth, With Cloud-Native Vendors Leading the Way<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s common knowledge that companies and governments around the world are seeing increased value in IAM Solutions. For example, 93% of European IT security leaders plan to maintain or \u00a0increase spending on IAM in the next three years, according to a recent study.<\/a><\/p>\n

For their part, Gartner predicts that 40% of identity and access management (IAM) purchases will use the identity and access management as a service (IDaaS) delivery model by 2020, up from just 20% \u00a0in 2016.<\/p>\n

Web-centric IDaaS leads the market in terms of customer acquisition, and Gartner estimates that up to 95% of client interactions on the topic of IDaaS “indicate a need for web-centric solutions to support B2E SaaS target system integration and consumer-facing and consumer use cases.” Meanwhile, just ten percent of those client interactions show a need for full-featured legacy IDaaS systems.<\/p>\n

Two Flavors of IDaaS Dominate the Market<\/strong><\/p>\n

As in previous years, Gartner’s analysts have found that the IDaaS market \u00a0is “roughly split between two styles of offerings,” web-centric IDaaS, and legacy, full-featured IDaaS providers.<\/p>\n

While legacy vendors usually offer robust capabilities, their solutions can be difficult to implement and maintain. On the other hand, web-centric vendors offer solutions that are easier to implement and use, but which\u00a0may not offer the same degree of capabilities, especially in terms of IGA and integration with legacy systems.<\/p>\n

However, in the coming years, Gartner predicts a blurring of the lines between these two distinct market segments, as web-centric IDaaS providers continue to move up-market and offer IGA features that meet the expectations of most organizations.<\/p>\n

‘Leaders’ Quadrant Gets Crowded<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2015, the \u2018leaders\u2019 quadrant of Gartner\u2019s graph featured just one vendor. Flash forward to 2016, and the field has become considerably more crowded, as two vendors enter the fray, with one of them surpassing the incumbent vastly in terms of ‘completeness of vision.’ So, what happened?<\/p>\n

Looking at the 2015 MQ, it\u2019s apparent that there was a considerable consolidation of vendors into the \u2018visionaries\u2019 quadrant. This year, two of those vendors have passed the threshold into leaders territory, while others have moved up to the point that they are nearly straddling the line. This change leads me to believe that Gartner is reflecting the increasing capabilities of web-centric IDaaS vendors, and the market change in general in their scoring.<\/p>\n


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